Ruckus Juice & Chitlins, Vol. 2: The Great Jug Bands

Ruckus Juice & Chitlins

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: February 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B000000G99
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #270,881 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bring It with You When You Come - Cannon's Jug Stompers

2. German Blues - Birmingham Jug Band

3. Selling the Jelly - Noah Lewis Jug Band

4. You May Leave But This Will Bring You Back - Memphis Jug Band

5. Walkin' Cane Stomp - Kentucky Jug Band

6. Rising Sun Blues - King David's Jug Band

7. Old Folks Started It - Minnie Wallace

8. Memphis Shake - The Dixieland Jug Blowers

9. Stealin' Stealin' - Memphis Jug Band

10. Sweet Potato Blues - King David's Jug Band

11. R.F.C. Blues - Jack Kelly

12. Brown Jug Blues - Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revelers

13. Last Chance Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers

14. He's in the Jailhouse Now - Memphis Jug Band

15. George Street Stomp - Cincinnati Jug Band

16. Casey Bill - Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band

17. Greenville Strut - Mississippi Sarah & Daddy Stovepipe

18. Boodle Am Shake - The Dixieland Jug Blowers

19. Jug Band Special - Whistler & His Jug Band

20. Smackin' the Sax - Phillips Louisville Jug Band

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This trove of 23 recordings matches its superb companion cut for cut. Each selection illustrates the jug genre's richness and diversity of style as well as racial and regional character, with bands' origins ranging from New York and Ohio through Kentucky and Tennessee on down to Alabama. Included are such flapper-age funk classics as Cannon's Jug Stompers' "Bring It with You When You Come"; the Memphis Jug Band's "Stealin' Stealin,'" "You May Leave but This Will Bring You Back," and "The Old Folks Started It" (with stirring vocals by Minnie Wallace); and Noah Lewis' Jug Band's "Selling the Jelly." Lurking in the collection's multicolored depths are discoveries such as "Brown Jug Blues" by Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revelers and "What Makes My Baby Cry" by the Five Harmaniacs, a white vaudeville act from Brooklyn. Also notable is Mississippi Sarah blowing jug behind Daddy Stovepipe on "Greenville Strut," guaranteed to move the human butt. --Alan Greenberg

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent sampler of jug band music, August 19, 2003

By	Joseph A. Blevins (Arlington Heights, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm not exactly sure what drew me to this wonderful album, but am I glad I found it! Harvey Pekar had mentioned his interest in old jug band recordings from the 1920s and 30s a few times, and so when I saw this compilation, I immediately picked it up. I suppose the bizarre cover photo was also an attraction. If you're familiar with the music of R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Seranaders or if you own the soundtracks to any of Terry Zweigoff's movies, you have some idea what to expect. This is as joyful and soulful as music gets. I wish this kind of music were in style today!

My favorite tracks are "Stealin', Stealin," "Old Folks Started It," and "He's In the Jailhouse Now." Rest assured, though, there's no filler here. You'll be nodding your head and tapping your foot to this CD in no time.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Call me Jughead, June 28, 2002

By	cliff (chicgo il) - See all my reviews

This album is ridiculously cool and great. Generically, the songs are all over the map: equal parts jazz and hillbilly music. Jug bands were the missing link between urban pop and rural folk forms. Who knew? You're missing out if you don't have this CD.