#Memphis Jug Band

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The Memphis Jug Band - K.C. Moan

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LECTURE 4: INFLUENCES (PART 1): There were a number of so-called “Jug Bands” in the American South during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. “Jug Bands” were especially popular among poor African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. One of them, the Memphis Jug Band, combined homemade “instruments” such as the jug, the washboard, and the washtub bass, with more conventional instruments, like guitar, piano, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, and so on. Founded in the 1920s in Memphis, Tennessee, the Memphis Jug Band attracted remarkable talent, thanks to its charismatic leader, Will Shade, who specialized in guitar, harmonica, and washtub bass. And Shade was vocalist to boot! The Memphis Jug Band emerged as one of the most prominent American jug bands, largely due to their prolific output and their longevity (they kept jamming well into the 1950s). They recorded a fair number of songs on the Victor, Gennett, and Okeh Records labels. This is one of their most famous songs, “Cocaine Habit Blues,” recorded on May 17, 1930.

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On September 26th we venerate Ancestor & Hoodoo Saint Aunt Caroline Dye on the 105th anniversary of her passing 🕊

Aunt Dye was a Seer, fortune teller, entrepreneur, & Hoodoo Woman who - without ever having picked up a mic or guitar - became one of the greatest Delta Blue's legends of all time.

Aunt Dye was born enslaved in Spartanburg, S.C around 1843 - where her parents died during her infancy. She first became aware of her gifts as a young child. She could see things that no one else could.  

One story recalls Aunt Dye at 10 yrs old (still enslaved on the plantation) when she was helping to set the table for Thanksgiving Dinner: She started insisting that they had not set enough plates, that Mister Charley was coming. Charley was the Plantation owner’s brother, who was thought to have been killed 4yra earlier during the Civil War. Sure enough, later that day Charley came walking in the door. The family couldn’t believe it! He relayed the fact that he had been wounded, taken prisoner, and had not had the chance to come home until that day. No one ever knew how she could have guessed such a thing. It was then that her "little coincidences" started to become noticed.

As a young woman, she migrated westward to Elgin, Jackson Co., Arkansas, where she married Martin Dye. They had one child, a girl, who passed at 11mo. Through the years, they to in several children, some of whom were Aunt Dye's kin.

Despite being labeled "uneducated"- unable to read or write, she amassed a small fortune as a wealthy landowner, rental property entrepreneur, & most of all, as a Hoodoo woman & fortune teller. Though she never claimed the latter title, it was given to her by her clients across the region. Black & White Folks came from all over the mid-south, with an especially devoted group of followers from Memphis,TN. So many people traveled into the region just to see her that a train going into Jackson Co. was named, the “Caroline Dye Special.”

Aunt Dye divined using only a deck of playing cards. She never gave readings relating to love or the outcome of World War I, but she did offer visions of the future & insight on various matters such as missing people, animals, & objects. Although payment was not required for her services, she received up to 30 letters in a single day, much of etch carried payment for service. Some White businessmen in the area reportedly would not make an important decision before consulting her first. All day long, folks crowded her home waiting for a reading. So she took advantage of their large numbers & sold meals from her kitchen.

“White and colored would go to her. You sick in bed, she raise the sick. … Had that much brains — smart lady. … That’s the kind of woman she was. Aunt Caroline Dye, she was the worst woman in the world. Had that much sense.” – Band Leader Will Shade of the Memphis Jug Band.

Presently, Aunt Caroline Dye rests at the Gum Grove Cemetery in Newport, Jackson Co., Arkansas where she is forever remembered as the infamous Hoodoo Fortune Teller of the 19th Century.

Offering suggestions: playing cards, money/coins, Delta Blues songs that honor her memory 

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

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Several African American blues singers and musicians composed songs about the culture of Hoodoo, including W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Big Lucky Carter, and Al Williams. African American blues performers were influenced by the culture of Hoodoo and wrote songs about mojo bags, love workings, and spirits. Their songs brought awareness of Hoodoo practices to the American mainstream population.

Several blues songs describe love charms or other folk magic. In her "Louisiana Hoodoo Blues" Gertrude Ma Rainey sang about a Hoodoo work to keep a man faithful: ""Take some of you hair, boil it in a pot, Take some of your clothes, tie them in a knot, Put them in a snuff can, bury them under the step…." Bessie Smith's song "Red Mountain Blues" tells of a fortune teller who recommends that a woman get some snakeroot and a High John the Conqueror root, chew them, place them in her boot and pocket to make her man love her. Several other Bessie Smith songs also mention Hoodoo. The song "Got My Mojo Working," written by Preston "Red" Foster in 1956 and popularized by Muddy Waters throughout his career, addresses a woman who is able to resist the power of the singer's Hoodoo amulets.

Hoodoo practitioner Aunt Caroline Dye was born enslaved in Spartanburg, South Carolina and sold to New Port, Arkansas as a child, where she became known for soothsaying and divination with playing cards. She is mentioned by name in the Memphis Jug Band's "Aunt Caroline Dye Blues" (1930) and in Johnny Temple's song "Hoodoo Woman" (1937).

Blues singer Robert Johnson is known for his song about going "down to the crossroads" to sell his soul to the devil to become a better musician. Some authors suggest that the song invokes a Hoodoo belief in crossroads spirits, a belief that originated in Central Africa among the Kongo people. However, the devil figure in Johnson's song, a black man with a cane who haunts crossroads, closely resembles Papa Legba, a spirit associated with Louisiana Voodoo and Haitian Vodou

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Small Things August 26, 2023

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Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Candy Machine - Humming Clutter

DJ speaks over. John Lurie National Orchestra - Little

Françoise Hardy - Ce petit cœur The Savage Resurrection - Every Little Song Malvina Reynolds - The Little Mouse Swell Maps - My Little Shops Parsnip - Feeling Small

DJ speaks over Brian Eno - Little Fishes

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - I'm a Little Airplane Skip Spence - Little Hands Baby Buddha - Little Things 10LEC6 - Little Red Walk Dirt - Wooden Gun The Flower Children - Mini-Skirt Blues Hogsnort Rupert - Little Bird

DJ speaks over Wire - Small Electric Piece

Marlowe - Small Business The Carter Family - Little Black Train The Just Measurers - Petites Guirlandes Trees - Little Black Cloud (1969 Demo) Catherine Desmarets - Les Petites Croix

DJ speaks over ESG - Tiny Sticks

Klaatu - Little Neutrino The Bubblegum - Little Red Bucket Christmas - Little Book of Lies Taraf de Haïdouks - Little Buds The Berlin Wall - My Little Finger

DJ speaks over Information - Little Pony

Saboten - 箱庭 Hakoniwa (Miniature Garden) Nightcrawlers - The Little Black Egg Earl Johnson - The Little Grave In Georgia Chumbawamba - To a Little Radio No Trend - Mindless Little Insects Memphis Jug Band - Little Green Slippers The Rousers - Little Tragedy

Sam & Dave - Small Portion of Your Love Gertrude - small change Karo - Un garçon en mini-jupe Little Assassins - Ant at Your Feet

The Raincoats - No One's Little Girl

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New issue Modern Recording No.362 Will Shade & the Memphis Jug Band

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From January 29th to February 9th, 2024

29-01-2024

JOHN CARPENTER & ALAN HOWARTH “Halloween II Original Soundtrack”; BOYS OF THE LOUGH “In The Tradition”; CHIC “C'est Chic”; SPARKS “Interior Design”; ABNER JAY “The Backbone Of America Is A Mule & Cotton”; THE NATACHA ATLAS & MARC EAGLETON PROJECT “Foretold In The Language Of Dreams”; TIM BUCKLEY “Happy Sad”; CORNERSHOP FEATURING BUBBLEY KAUR “Cornershop And The Double “O” Groove Of...”; EDDIE VINSON “Cleanhead Blues”; GRUFF RHYS “Yr Atal Gedhedlaeth”; LEONARD COHEN “Dear Heather”; ELMORE JAMES “Dust My Broom”; GERSHON KINGSLEY “Music To Moog”; EUROS CHILDS “Gingerbread House Explosion”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Universal Truths & Cycles”

06-02-2024

GROOVE ARMADA “Vertigo”; CATATONIA “International Velvet”; EUROS CHILDS “Chops”; MILES KANE “Change The Show”; BLAKE BABIES “Nicely, Nicely”; EARL HOOKER & JUNIOR WELLS “Earl Hooker & Junior Wells”; ABBA “Ring Ring”; LOWELL FULSON “West Coast Blues”; KROKODIL “Swamp”; GRUFF RHYS Candylion”; PRIMAL SCREAM “Riot City Blues”; MILEY CYRUS “Bangerz”; SPARKS “Angst In My Pants”; THE POLICE “Ghost In The Machine”; LINDISFARNE “Dingly Dell”; PROFESSOR LONGHAIR “New Orleans Piano”

07-02-2024

BUKKA WHITE “Parchman Farm Blues”; AMON DUUL II “Yeti”; JENS LEKMAN “When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog”; MEMPHIS JUG BAND “Walk Right In”; SONIC YOUTH “Rather Ripped”; J.B. LENOIR “Eisenhower Blues”; SALTY DOG “Every Dog Has It's Day”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Let's Go Eat The Factory”; SQUAREPUSHER “Hello Everything”; BMX BANDITS “C86”; TAKE THAT “Beautiful World”

08-02-2024

LEON ROSSELSON “Wo Sind Die Elefanten?”; KRISTIN HERSH “Possible Dust Clouds”; NATACHA ATLAS “Gedida”; CATHY DAVEY “Tales Of Silversleeve”; EMMYLOU HARRIS “Luxury Liner”; ZERO 7 “Simple Things”; GOLDIE “Timeless”; ERIC BOGLE “Voices In The Wilderness”; EELS “Souljacker”; THE CARDIGANS “First Band On The Moon”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Vampire On Titus”

09-02-2024

SPARKS “Balls”; RICHARD THOMPSON “Live At Crawley, 1993”; STAN ROGERS “From Coffee House To Concert Hall”; THE SPIN DOCTORS “Homebelly Groove... Live”; STEELY DAN “Can't Buy A Thrill”

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Who was/is Sonny Burgess ?

Sonny Burgess: The Classic Recordings 1956-1959

Out to the dancehall Cut a little rug We're runnin' like wildfire And hittin' that jug.. A cursory listen to some of Sonny Burgess's records suggests a life lived close to the edge - nights spent playing gin mills followed by drunken chases down dirt roads, firing off bottle rockets and puking over the neighbour's car at dawn. In person, though, Burgess is a somewhat shy and self-effacing family man. The occasional comment will hint at more turbulent waters but he hasn't lived the life one might anticipate from some of his lyrics, which is just as well, otherwise there might not be a Sonny Burgess to talk to. When Sun's crop of rockabilly singers forsook the shaking music they usually reverted back to their first love - country music.

Sonny Burgess was the exception. His passion was Rhythm & Blues. He had a true R&B voice like a tenor sax in full cry. It was short on subtlety and delicate shadings - but a magnificent rock & roll instrument. Soon after he quit the music business, Burgess took a salesman's job in a store, and still talks with enthusiasm of an old black guy who used to bring in his guitar, and play loping Jimmy Reed riffs. Sonny would sit and jam with him. Perhaps a blues album is the great Sonny Burgess album that has yet to be made. Born near Newport, Arkansas on May 28, 1931, Albert ‘Sonny' Burgess grew up on a farm, and developed his musical tastes listening to the Grand Ole Opry and the Memphis country stations, taking in R&B from WLAC in Nashville and WDIA in Memphis along the way.

Sonny Burgess did his hitch the Army, and returned to Newport with the thought of a career in baseball, or -failing that- farming. He worked for a spell in a box factory, and slowly put together a semi-pro band that went under several names and through several incarnations, eventually calling themselves the Moonlighters. He was back working on the farm when, as he put it, "farming started interfering with my music." In an early version of the group, Sonny Burgess was the guitarist, Paul Whaley handled the vocals in a Hank Thompson style, Kern Kennedy played piano, Russ Smith was on drums, Johnny Ray Hubbard played bass, and Bob Armstrong handled the accordion. After Whaley went back to California, Sonny Burgess took over the vocals, and Armstrong eventally quit.

There was no shortage of venues because Newport in Jackson County permitted liquor to be sold but was surrounded by dry counties; hence a number of nightclubs out of proportion with Newport's population. They played local nightspots like the Silver Moon, Bob King's and Mike's club. They often played at King's on Friday night; Saturday night belonged to Punky Coldwell, a saxophonist who led a racially mixed jazz dance band. When Elvis Presley came to the Silver Moon Club in October 1955, Sonny Burgess organised the supporting act, and put together Newport's version of a supergroup combining some of Punky's men and the Moonlighters. According to Sonny Burgess, Elvis tried to hire Punky and Kern Kennedy that night to flesh out the meagre sound of Scotty and Bill.

Also, according to Sonny Burgess, Elvis got the idea to record One Night from the Pacers, who often performed it as much as five times a night. For his part, Elvis's contribution to Sonny Burgess's career was to implant the idea of going to record at Sun. At some point early in 1956, the Moonlighters went to Sun for an audition. Sam Phillips told them that they needed a fuller sound so Burgess joined forces with Jack Nance and Joe Lewis who had another local band. It was Lewis who came up with the name 'Pacers' for the new group, copping it from the Pacer airplane. Both Smith and Nance played drums so Nance (who was a music major in college) switched to his other instrument, trumpet. Sonny Burgess had originally wanted a saxophone player to emulate Punky Coldwell, but he figured that the trumpet gave the Pacers a little different sound. On May 2, 1956 Burgess drove back to Memphis. Phillips was impressed with the revamped line-up and cut their debut single that afternoon.

We Wanna Boogie and Red Headed Woman stand among the rawest recordings released during the first flowering of rock ‘n’ roll. The lyrics were almost unintelligible (although they repay close attention with some very funny couplets), and the instrumentation teetered on the edge of atonality. It was a record that sported an air of total abandon, sounding as if it had been created under the heavy burden of alcohol, although Sonny Burgess remembers that everyone was stone cold sober, and nervous to the point of apprehension. Despite being almost unmarketable according to established precepts, Red Headed Woman reportedly sold over 90,000 copies. It did especially well in Boston, although Burgess was unaware of that fact until Nance and Lewis toured there a few years later with Conway Twitty. At that time the Pacers were managed by Gerald Grojean, the assistant manager of a local radio station, KNBY.

On one of their early trips to Memphis, the Pacers went to see Bob Neal, who held the promise of broader horizons and promised to get them on tour with Presley. "We come back home," remembered Sonny Burgess, “and about a year later we hadn't heard nothing so we went back and saw him again. He said that Gerry Grojean had got on the phone crying, saying ‘You can't take them away from me'. Bob said he didn't need all that crap and told Gerry he could keep us." Grojean, who knew little more about the business than the Pacers themselves had no idea how to expose the group outside Newport during a critical stage in their career.

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Memphis Jug Band-On The Road Again ... ... ... don’t forget the jug bands whatever you do

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Norty Blues Episode 16

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f4aht-142f8d5 50 minutes of Blues featuring “Papa” Charlie Jackson, Cannons Jug Stompers, Memphis Minnie, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Odetta, Buddy Guy and some young blokes, Marlene Cummins, Count Basie, Dave Hole

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History of the Harmonica Blues

Born in Louisiana in 1930, Walter was raised by a mean stepfather who beat him and made him work the hard way in the fields. One day he just ran away from home and started to live on his own. While still a teenager we can hear him play guitar for tips in New Orleans, then in Memphis, trying his luck among the several jug bands of Beale Street. This is where he learned the harmonica and probably also experimenting electric amplification, trying to emulate (from his own words) the sound of the accordion He heard from Louisiana's Zydeco bands.

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Insane Crazy Blues - Memphis Jug  Band

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Transistor Sister #158 March 19, 2023

Mini theme: Unusual, rare, and obsolete forms and methods of communication!

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Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon - Transistor Sister Small Faces - Lazy Sunday

Zounds - Dirty Squatters Kosmetika - House The Donnas - Boy Like You Pyhäkoulu - Exynyt Giorgio - Stop

Meiko Kaji - 芽衣子のふて節 Omega Tribe - Time for Change Warsaw - The Drawback The Toads - Nationalsville Fania All-Stars - Sabor Sabor

Baby Huey - Running Water Machine - Flowers Tyrades - I Am Homicide Silver Abuse - Plastic Rows Non Band - Vibration Army Vaaska - Invasion

Les Misérables - Western Union Stiff Little Fingers - Closed Groove Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark - Telegraph (The Manor Version 1981) The Fireballs - 3 Minutes Time Intense Molecular Activity - Blinxong Sam Ash and Elida Morris - Hello Frisco The Kinks - Party Line No-Song Kutkotz - Telegram Wreckless Eric - Semaphore Signals

The Baltimore and Ohio Marching Band - The Happy Wanderer Saphron - Sinner Man Vorsicht Kinder - Verschluck dich nicht Charles E. Funk Rebellion - It's Gonna Be the Death of You Dave Edmunds - Dynamite Memphis Jug Band - She Done Sold It Out Liaisons Dangereuses - Kess kill fé show

Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazi Died

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