Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Gus Cannon’s sole Stax platter sits in stark contrast to the label’s usual brand of hot buttered high production soul. Though kingpin of the eponymous Jug Stompers a half-century previous, Cannon’s star had long since faded into dormancy by the time the 1963 session was waxed. It took a chart-topping cover of his staple “Walk [...]
Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Image of the Memphis Jug Band from R. Crumb's "Heroes of the Blues" trading cards. LINK This Hokum Scorchers' song is a version of "What's the Matter"originally done by the Memphis Jug Band in 1929. Lou Reimuller is playing the National guitar, kazoo and vocals and I am on the washboard, kazoo and vocals. We recorded this in 1990 for our first Hokum Scorcher's album. Follow the link and scroll down...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Last Wednesday, June 11th, and last night, June 18th, we held auditions live in the Roadhouse with Greg Vandy to find the members of the first and only official Roadhouse Jug Band (now officially named The Dexter Street Stompers), which will be fearlessly led by yours truly. Each night we had five old-timey, irreverent [...]
Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Okay, I got lazy on Sunday night. A fan from Germany wrote me and was disappointed that there wasn't a new song to listen to. So, here is my Sunday night song, "Combo Waltz" performed by the Hokum Scorchers. This was originally a Memphis Jug Band song. Lou Reimuller is playing National Guitar, harmonica and kazoo and I (Amy Crehore) am playing the washboard and cups. Follow link and scroll down for...
Mondo Diablo (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The House of Yahweh Playlist 1 The Father’s Laws Alleee 1 Richard de Bordeaux et Daniel Beretta * La Drogue Global Warming Torero Band * All Things Bright and Beautiful Memphis Jug Band * Insane Crazy Blues 3 The Father’s Laws Clive Richardson * Gay Activity Gospel Tone Spiritual Singers * Oh Sinner Man Yedidaya Hawkins Arrest Ralph Dollimore * Hit and Run Kids of Widney High * [...]
Diddy Wah (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
mp3: Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby mp3: Frank Stokes - I Got Mine mp3: Memphis Jug Band - On The Road Again mp3: Parham–Pickett Apollo Syncopaters - Mojo Strut mp3: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Kater Street Rag I was recently gifted a book of the american cartoonist Robert Crumb. It packages together the Heros of Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country trading card sets that he created...
PCL LinkDump (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
I'm a sucker for a song with a twisted title, so I was thrilled when my Flickr e-pal Evan sent me a couple of swell tunes from the Memphis Jug Band..."Baby Got the Rickets" and the unabashedly romantic "She Stabbed Me With an Ice Pick". You don't even have to be e-pals with him yourself, you can go to his site Intermittent Order of the Hoo-Hoo and snag them for yourself.
Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
Memphis Jug Band National mandolin style one 1930 National plectrum style one 1928 It's Sunday night and I just uploaded a new song to my website player: "You May Go, but This Will Bring You Back", originally done by the Memphis Jug Band in 1930. The Hokum Scorchers' version has Lou playing a vintage National mandolin. I am playing a National plectrum guitar. The actual instruments we used are shown...
Little Hokum Rag (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
R. Crumb cover - Memphis Jug Band Album (Yazoo) The Hokum Scorchers' Sunday night song is a version of "What's the Matter"originally done by the Memphis Jug Band in 1929. Lou Reimuller is playing the National guitar, kazoo and vocals and I am on the washboard, kazoo and vocals. We recorded this in 1990 for our first Hokum Scorcher's album. LINK (To hear song, follow link and scroll down for music player)...
Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream (Free subscription) | 27/11/2007
The Dylan bootleg Live at the Finjan Club is as true as it gets, capturin' Dylan perfectly during his go it alone troubadour period. This was Dylan before he was hard times chic or that outlaw gypsy. This was Dylan on the way to becoming Dylan. Finjan is one of the absolute must have recordings from 62 and most positivley one of the doctors favorite live Dyan bootlegs. Funny enough when we first heard...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 19/10/2007
One of the definitive jug bands of the '20s and early '30s, this seminal group was comprised of Will Shade, Will Weldon, Hattie Hart, Charlie Polk, Walter Horton, and others, in various configurations. Guitarist/harpist Will Shade formed the Memphis Jug Band in the Beale Street section of Memphis in the mid-'20s. A few years after their formation, Shade signed a contract with Victor Records in 1927....
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Free subscription) | 28/08/2007
I'm reduced to sheepishness on finding it's 12 days since my last blog. All I can say is that life has been hectic with chores and general labour, even on the 25th, my birthday. Last year I spent my 60th on holiday in a villa in Dalyan, Turkey, and went up in a microlight, circling above the beautiful delta and seeing a big turtle moving purposefully along in the sea below. (Dalyan's delta is the site...
