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Will Shade
12+ albums
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Will Shade (February 5, 1898 – September 18, 1966) was an African American Memphis blues musician, best known for his leadership of the Memphis Jug Band. Shade was commonly called Son Brimmer, a nickname from his grandmother Annie Brimmer, because "son" is short for "grandson". The name apparently stuck when other members of the band noticed that the "sun" bothered him and he used the "brim" of a hat to "shade" his eyes. William Shade Jr. was born February 1898 in Tennessee to William Shade and Mary. Mary was fourteen years old when she had William. After her husband's death from a gunshot wound in 1903, Mary married a member of the Banks family, but by 1920 she was living as a widow again. Shade had two half brothers, Henry Banks and Robert Banks. He credited his mother with teaching him how to play harmonica, his first instrument. The genealogy of Shade is being conducted by genealogist Dennis Richmond Jr from Yonkers, New York. Dennis has traced the family histories of Sylvia Woods, Peg Leg Sam, and Cab Calloway. Shade got his first taste of jug band music in 1925 when he first heard recordings by the Dixieland Jug Blowers, a jug band from Louisville, Kentucky. Shade was excited by what he heard and felt that bringing this style of music to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, could be promising. He then convinced a few of the local musicians, though still reluctant, to join him in creating one of Memphis's first jug bands. The original Memphis Jug Band, as it was called,
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Classic Harmonica Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
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The George Mitchell Collection Vol. 5
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The George Mitchell Collection Volumes 30-38
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Memphis jug band - the story 1927-1934
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Memphis Jug Band 1927-1934, the Story (feat. Memphis Minnie, Hattie Hart, Minnie Wallace) [Blues Collection Historic Collection]
Harmonica Blues - Blowing from Memphis to Chicago
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I Blueskvarter 1964, Volume Three
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My Rough and Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Ballads and Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1
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My Rough And Rowdy Ways: Early American Rural Music. Badman Balads And Hellraising Songs, Vol. 1
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Memphis Masters: Early American Blues Classics (1927-34)
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Memphis Blues, Vol. 3 (1927 - 1930)
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The George Mitchell Collection, Volumes 30 -38 - Disc 5