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Gus Cannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B00005NC0B
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,930 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #13 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Memphis Blues
  • #90 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Traditional Blues

Track Listings

1. Feather Bed

2. Last Chance Blues

3. Big Railroad Blues

4. Going To Germany

5. Minglewood Blues

6. Mule Get Up In The Alley

7. Viola Lee Blues

8. Walk Right In

9. Noah's Blues

10. Wolf River Blues

11. Riley's Wagon

12. Madison Street Rag

13. Bring It With You When You Come

14. The Rooster's Crowing Blues

15. Pig Ankle

16. Money Never Runs Out

17. Heart Breakin' Blues

18. Springdale Blues

19. Jonestown Blues

20. Prison Wall Blues

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jerry Garcia Listened to This!, June 17, 2003

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R. MARK Plummer (From the Former USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

No one has taken a few moments to write something about this gem? What's wrong whiff you peoples? Well someone has to do it! So, lookee here now, have you ever listened heard Mungo Jerry do "In the Summertime when the weather is hot..."? Or maybe you were into the Grateful Dead and titles like "New Minglewood Blues" and "Viola Lee Blues" ring dat lil bell in yo head? How 'bout "Bring It With You When You Come"? Still drawin' a blank? Where y'all been anyways? "Walk Right In Sit Right Down"? These may be some of the earliest recordings of those tunes. (Not including Mungo Jerry's hit... but THAT is the style: Jug Band music. Yes, with a real jug. This here is gin-u-wine rural music from de southland. These tunes were recorded in the years 1928-29 & 30 by Gus Cannon (banjo) and his group "The Jug Stompers." From down around Mississippi, there. The group included an amazing harmonica player, Noah Lewis whose playing influenced a whole generation of mouf harp players. Instrumentation included (at times) Banjo, Harmonica (de mouf harp), Guitar, and natcherly, the Jug, and even a Kazoo when 'the charts' called for it. Naw... just jokin witch you there. They didn't have no charts - this music was recorded LIVE. No over-dubs, man. And no digital noise reduction neither and you may even hear some surface noise left over from them original recordin's. This here is the real thing, junior! Jug band blues and early home-made rural jams. If you enjoy authentic American Roots Music, get your paws on this little silver disc and visit a time and place that gave birth to a whole genre of fine and funky sounds. Often imitated - but never duplicated!