Memphis Jug Band - Collection 1927-34 Release:Collection 1927-34 Acrobat Charles Olivieri-Munroe

Charles Olivieri-Munroe

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

A half-century after the band's last recordings

dusty instrumental

Memphis Jug Band - Collection 1927-34 Release:Collection 1927-34 Acrobat Charles Olivieri-MunroeThe 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