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Will Shade and Charley Burse of the Memphis Jug Band musicians on film…

Here are two of the best prewar Memphis jug band musicians, Charlie Burse and Wil Shade, doing “Kansas City Blues” for a 1958 television special called “Blues Street”

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Bluzlover

January 27, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Thanks Tom! I keep looking at that guitar – is it made of parts of a banjo and a guitar put together, or do I need some new glasses?
NMC

January 27, 2010 at 2:34 pm

It’s a single cone national steel resonator guitar– page down here for a picture.
Plexix

January 27, 2010 at 3:00 pm

Shouldn’t a jug band have an actual jug player?
a friend of the law

January 27, 2010 at 3:04 pm

Perhaps getting into the jug before perfomances had more to do with the name of the band than an actual jug instrument.
Plexix

January 27, 2010 at 3:11 pm

According to Wikipedia:

The term jug band is loosely used in referring to ensembles that also incorporate home-made instruments but that are more accurately called skiffle bands, spasm bands or juke (or jook) bands (see juke joint) because they are missing the required jug player

But I bet they have a jug laying around somewhere, AFOTL.
NMC

January 27, 2010 at 3:33 pm

There was a craze for jug bands in the 20s, and some of the greatest were in Memphis– two in particular, Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band. Shade was the leader of the Memphis Jug Band, which usually but not always recorded with a jug (played by blowing into the jug with the mouth making a raspberry– the jug basically is a resonator). So these guys were mainstays of the Memphis Jug Band, which did have jug players.

There’s a story about them playing on Beale using a metal kerosene can as their jug. They’d float some kerosene on top of the liquor they were drinking, then when drinking tilt it back far enough to drink from the liquor only, but if a cop came buy and asked “Have you got any liquor in that jug,” they’d let him smell it. This has always sounded completely awful to me.
a friend of the law

January 27, 2010 at 5:38 pm

“They’d float some kerosene on top of the liquor they were drinking, then when drinking tilt it back far enough to drink from the liquor only….”

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