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Memphis Sheiks
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The Memphis Jug Band (also known as Memphis Sheiks) was an American musical group in the 1920s and 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. Between 1927 and 1934 various African-American musicians in the Memphis, Tennessee area grouped around singer, song writer, guitarist, and harmonica player Will Shade (also known as Son Brimmer). The personnel of this jug band varied from day to day, with Shade booking gigs and arranging recording sessions. Among the recorded members were Will Shade (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Charlie Burse (pronounced Bursey) (guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Charlie Nickerson (piano and vocals), Charlie Pierce (violin), Charlie Polk (jug), Tewee Blackman (vocals, guitar), "Hambone" Lewis (jug), Jab Jones (jug), Johnny Hodges / Hardge (piano), Ben Ramey (vocals and kazoo), Casey Bill Weldon (guitar and vocals), Memphis Minnie (guitar and vocals), Vol Stevens (vocals, violin, and mandolin), Milton Robie (violin), Otto Gilmore / Gilmer (drums and woodblocks), and Robert Burse (drums). In addition to the above, vocals were also provided by Hattie Hart, Memphis Minnie, and Jennie Clayton (Shade's wife), with Charlie Burse often contributing beautiful harmony parts to Shade's lead vocal lines. The attributed names of the group led by Will Shade on various recording labels vary quite a bit, but recent scholarly con
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Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926–1937
Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937
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Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937, #1
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Rough Guide To Jug Band Blues
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Songsters & Saints Vol 1: Songsters
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Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937)
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Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (disc 1)
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Good For What Ails You
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The Rough Guide to Jug Band Blues