The Minglewood Blues Variations

Exploration of Harry Smith's Anthology

The Minglewood Blues Variations

Oct 14, 2015 · 30m 58s

Chapters

01 · Gus Cannon - Minglewood Blues

32s

02 · Woody Mann, Bob Brozman - An American Dream (Minglewood Memories)

4m 14s

03 · Jim Kweskin - Minglewood-Jim Kweskin

6m 24s

04 · Noah Lewis's Jug Band - New Minglewood Blues - Noah Lewis's Jug Band

9m 6s

05 · John Lee Granderson - Minglewood Town

11m 43s

06 · Guy Davis - Minglewood Blues-Guy Davis

13m 20s

07 · Gus Cannon - Narration

17m

08 · Gus Cannon - Walk Right In

19m 52s

09 · Gus Cannon - Crawdad Hole

22m 19s

10 · Gus Cannon - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

24m 44s

11 · Gus Cannon - Salty Dog

27m 47s

12 · Gus Cannon - Come on Down to My House

30m 5s

Description

Gus Cannon, the leader of Cannon’ Jug Stompers, was a great musician and character, a central figure of the Jug Band scene in Memphis, a man who got his musical...

Gus Cannon, the leader of Cannon’ Jug Stompers, was a great musician and character, a central figure of the Jug Band scene in Memphis, a man who got his musical education at the beginning of the 20th century, around Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of many great Delta Blues musicians and on the road with Medicine shows. One of the rare black performer recorded on 78rpm records who played the 5-string banjo, which he taught himself to play on an instrument he made out of a frying pan and a raccoon skin, he also had a jug mounted on a rack that allowed him to blow bass figures while strumming and picking the banjo.

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