Uploaded by warholsoup100 on Apr 24, 2011
Novelty Songs Drug Songs. The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s.The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and jugs blown to supply the bass; they played in a variety of musical styles. The band recorded almost a hundred titles.Between 1927 and 1934 various African-American musicians in the Memphis, Tennessee area grouped around singer, songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player Will Shade (also known as Son Brimmer or Sun Brimmer). The personnel of this jug band varied from day to day, with Shade booking gigs and arranging recording sessions. The band functioned as a training ground for musicians who would go on to success with careers of their own.
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Memphis Jug Band - Insane Crazy Blues 1934by warholsoup1001,050 views
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'What's That Smells Like Fish' BLIND BOY FULLER (1938) Ragtime Blues Guitar Legendby RagtimeDorianHenry65,694 views
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Cocaine Blues (LUKE JORDAN, August 1927) Ragtime Guitar Legendby RagtimeDorianHenry59,277 views
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Dick Justice - Cocaine (1928)by warholsoup1001,510 views
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Georgia White - The Stuff Is Here 1937 Blues Jazz Drug Songsby warholsoup1006,271 views
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Bessie Smith - Cemetery Blues (1923)by warholsoup10032,462 views
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Amede Ardoin - Blues de Basile (1930)by RealRockandRoll1,887 views
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Marijuana Boogie.wmvby sgvsur1354,466 views
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Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues (1940) Wilson Swainby warholsoup1004,905 views
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Japanese Night Nurseby dicksditties91,285 views
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Gertrude Michael - Marahuana 1934 (Marijuana)by warholsoup1005,688 views
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Memphis Minnie - Hoodoo Lady Bluesby anglinthemtns126,018 views
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Larry Adler - Smoking Reefers 1938by warholsoup10015,901 views
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Victoria Spivey & Lonnie Johnson - Dope Head Blues (1927)by warholsoup1005,049 views
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Herbert Payne - Smoke Clouds (1917)by warholsoup1001,154 views
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'New Bumble Bee' MEMPHIS MINNIE (1930) Memphis Blues Guitar Legendby RagtimeDorianHenry29,718 views
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On The Road Again - THE MEMPHIS JUG BAND (1928) Memphis Blues Legendby RagtimeDorianHenry19,685 views
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Weed Smoker's Dream -Harlem Hamfatsby MoleDFigg73,862 views
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Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher 1930by warholsoup10064,453 views
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Lorrain Walton - If You're A Viper (1938)by warholsoup1001,718 views
@ozrock17 A lot of narcotics was legal in the 30's, heroin was sell as cure against bad coughs,(It can surely heal all kind of diseases,) Ah Ah Ah...
RSBoots 1 month ago
It's a very cool music!!!
Chairinhand 1 month ago
@Squarerig They is the government, but I is me. Reality just gets better after you've had a fucked up mess to compare it to.
paulj0557 2 months ago
Cocaine is banned as being harmful>Dropping bombs on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan is,however,a salubrious and extremely profitable form of employment-for some,is understood!A world stood upside down!
Squarerig 2 months ago
@doctorw2 - first documentation of it being a street drug was in 1911, known as powered cocoa - and it became an illegal substance in 1945
ozrock17 3 months ago
i didnt know they had cocaine in the 1930s
doctorw2 3 months ago
my gawd.. the blues....
MarineResearch 3 months ago
Pipe pot spoon and jug,great LP,fantastic songs
bernie910 3 months ago
Great Song and Great Band!
Where did you get the photo from? Do you know who it's of?
kaystarr17 4 months ago
nice
shanecincy 4 months ago