Memphis Shakedown: More Jug Band Classics [Box set, Original recording remastered]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 2, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Jsp Records
• ASIN: B0009UNARG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #392,658 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Highway No. 61 Blues

2. Highway No. 61 Blues No. 2

3. Red Ripe Tomatoes

4. Believe I'll Go Back Home

5. Country Woman

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Disc: 2

1. You Gotta Have That Thing

2. Tappin' That Thing

3. Bottle It Up and Go

4. I Got Good Taters

5. Come Along Little Children

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Disc: 3

1. Ticket Agent Blues

2. New Minglewood Blues

3. Selling the Jelly

4. Bad Luck's My Buddy

5. Chickasaw Special

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Disc: 4

1. Beale Street Holiday

2. Baby, You Win

3. Oil It Up and Go

4. What's the Matter with the Well

5. I'm in Buddy's Wagon

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic collection of Rarities, October 16, 2010

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This review is from: Memphis Shakedown: More Jug Band Classics (Audio CD)

For anyone who like myself has been trying to piece together a collection of classic jugband music this and its companion set "Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers" from JSP are a godsend. Together they collect all of the Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon sides that are extent. Seven sides from the 1932 Champion/Gennett MJB session remain untraced, so they aren't here, nor is the material that has been collected on "Memphis Sanctified Jug Bands 1928-1930" where Will Shade and company back up singing preachers.
The collection includes all the great Noah Lewis sides both solo and with his own jugband featuring Sleepy John Estes. (Noah Lewis was Gus Cannon's harp player and wrote and sang some of the Jug Stompers most poignant songs); Jack Kelly's West Memphis Jug Band; Jed Davenport & His Beale Street Jug Band; the Memphis Minnie/Memphis Jug Band sides; as well as several other Memphis players in the same vein. It also has tracks that collect the post-jug band work of Charlie Burse, and another Estes group, the Delta boys, which features tub bass and kazoo. I highly recommend this set for anyone serious about jug band music.