Memphis Jug Band - Collection 1927-34 Release:Collection 1927-34 Acrobat A half-century after the band's

A half-century after the band's last recordings

helped by the thriving commercial and creative environment provided by the independent labels which sprang up in the city in those years

it shows that

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Memphis Jug Band - Collection 1927-34 Release:Collection 1927-34 Acrobat A half-century after the band'sThe Memphis Jug Band are generally primarily associated with the blues, but in truth they were a more broad based musical agglomeration, whose music was designed to be danceable, humorous and out and out entertaining. Their line up varied across the years, but the essential jug band sound and instrumentation of guitar, jug, kazoo, harmonica, and occasional banjo, mandolin, washboard and woodblocks, remained at the core of their sound, which has