Editing Jug band (section)

==Original bands==
Jug bands from [[Louisville, Kentucky]], were the first to record. The violinist Clifford Hayes's Old Southern Jug Band recorded as early as 1923.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW00RF6.pdf |title=The Jug Bands |website=Smithsonianfolkways.org |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref> Whistler & His Jug Band, often making use of a [[nose whistle]], first recorded in September 1924 for [[Gennett Records]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Joslyn |last=Layne |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/whistler-his-jug-band-mn0000250375/biography |title=Whistler & His Jug Band &#124; Biography & History |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref> [[Earl McDonald]]'s Original Louisville Jug Band and [[Dixieland Jug Blowers]] were also among the first to record. The vaudeville-blues singer [[Sara Martin]] and "The Blue Yodeler", [[Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)|Jimmie Rodgers]], both employed these bands for their recordings. Louisville bands often used whiskey jugs and were more jazz-oriented, a melding of [[string band]] and ragtime influences. Jug bands made [[street performance]]s, played at parties, and began entertaining on [[riverboats]] on the [[Ohio River]] around 1900 and first appeared at the [[Kentucky Derby]] in 1903.

Jug bands from the [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] area were more firmly rooted in [[country blues]], [[hokum]], and earlier [[African-American music]] traditions. [[Will Shade]]'s [[Memphis Jug Band]] and [[Gus Cannon]]'s Jug Stompers recorded for [[Ralph Peer]], starting in 1927,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jughall.org/main/nominee_view.html?ID=19 |title=Jug Band Hall of Fame: Ralph Peer |website=Jughall.org |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref> many great songs that became the basis for the later jug band revival, including "[[Stealin']]," "Jug Band Music," "On the Road Again," "Whoa, Mule," "Minglewood Blues," and "[[Walk Right In]]". Many songs had "blues" in the title, including "Coal Oil Blues" and "Lumpy Man Blues," but were not traditional 12-bar blues.<ref>{{cite web|title=America's DIY Music—-Jug Band|url=https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2019/1/11/americas-diy-music-jug-band|website=The Attic|access-date=1 February 2019}}</ref>

The Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers featured [[harmonica]] played by Will Shade and [[Noah Lewis (musician)|Noah Lewis]], respectively. Other bands from the Memphis area were Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Devil's Music|first=Giles|last=Oakley|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/136 136]|isbn=978-0-306-80743-5|date=1997|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/devilsmusichisto00oakl_0/page/136}}</ref>  Jed Davenport and Dewey Corley's Beale Street Jug Band, and Noah Lewis's Jug Band. [[Ma Rainey]]'s tub-jug band featured the first recordings of the slide guitarist [[Tampa Red]], who later formed his own Hokum Jug Band. [[Big Bill Broonzy]] and [[Memphis Minnie]] cut a few sides each backed up by their own jug bands; Memphis Minnie also sang and played with the Memphis Jug Band. Memphis jug band music is closely associated with [[Memphis blues]].

The [[Cincinnati Jug Band]] recorded for [[Paramount Records]] in 1929, with [[Stovepipe No. 1]] on the stovepipe.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lewis, Uncle Dave |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cincinnati-jug-band-mn0000124597/biography |title=Cincinnati Jug Band &#124; Biography & History |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref>

The Seven Gallon Jug Band, including [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]] on jug and [[Willie "The Lion" Smith]] on piano, recorded for [[Columbia Records]] in 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/7gallonjug.html |title=The Seven Gallon Jug Band |website=Redhotjazz.com |date=1929-12-06 |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref>
  
The [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] Jug Band, including [[Jaybird Coleman]] and [[Big Joe Williams]], and King David's Jug Band recorded for [[Okeh Records]] in 1930 in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Burgin |last=Mathews |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/birmingham-jug-band-mn0000097758/biography |title=Birmingham Jug Band &#124; Biography & History |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2017-03-09}}</ref>

[[Daddy Stovepipe]] and Mississippi Sarah recorded for [[Vocalion Records]] in 1931.

The 1930s depression and the devastating effect of radio on record sales reduced the output of jug band music to a trickle. The last sides by Cannon and the Memphis Jug Band were made in 1930 and 1934, respectively. Cannon and Will Shade were recorded again in 1956 by [[Sam Charters]] on a field trip for [[Folkways Records]]. The sound of the washboard and tub bass, however, lasted well into the 1940s as an integral part of the "[[Bluebird Records|Bluebird beat]]" in Chicago. [[Bukka White]]'s "[[Fixin' to Die Blues|Fixin' to Die]]", recorded in Chicago in 1940, is driven by a syncopated washboard backup.