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Birmingham Jug Band
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The Birmingham Jug Band were one of the first and one of the most raucous and most irrepressible jug bands ever to record. It's varied repertoire reflects the general diversity of African American music in the deep south in the late 1920's. Early jug bands were typically made up of African American vaudeville and medicine show musicians. Beginning in the urban south, they played a mixture of Memphis blues (even before it was formally called the blues), ragtime, and jazz music. Two of the group's most pronounced musical characteristics: its tempo is rather quick and it features a thick musical texture, enriched by the blend of jug, percussion and stringed instruments. The eponymous jug sound is made by taking a jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) and buzzing the lips into its mouth from about an inch away. As with brass instruments, changes in pitch are controlled by altering lip tension, and an accomplished jug player could have a two octave range. Jaybird Coleman teamed up with Big Joe Williams in The Birmingham Jug Band and toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrel Show, working shows throughout the South in 1922 through 1924. He settled in Bessemer to work with his wife, Irene, in his local church, at parties, suppers and picnics through the 1920's. He recorded for the Gennett, Silvertone and Black Patti labels in Birmingham in 1927. He toured as a single entertainer, working club dates throughout the South in 1929, and frequently worked with the Birmingham Jug Band in
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People Take Warning 1: Man Vs. Machine
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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People Take Warning [Disc 1] - Man Vs. Machine
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Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 1
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Jaybird Coleman & The Birmingham Jug Band (1927-1930)
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
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People Take Warning! - 1 Man v Machine
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Rough Guide To Jug Band Blues
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Ruckus Juice & Chittlins, Vol. 2
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads And Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
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Ruckus Juice & Chittlins Volume 1
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 Disc 1