Like most JSP box sets, Memphis Shakedown is an affordably priced grab bag of vintage music presented with enough care and attention to detail that interested parties may dive directly in and experience more proof that history can be entertaining, invigorating, and deeply rewarding. The focus here is bluesy jug, mouth harp, kazoo, washboard, mandolin, and guitar-driven entertainment as it materialized on phonograph records in and around Memphis, TN, during the years 1929-1939. Featured are ukulele handler Charlie Burse & His Memphis Mudcats; Jed Davenport of the Beale Street Jug Band; mouth organist Noah Lewis (best known as a member of Cannon's Jug Stompers), performing solo and leading his own jug band; Kaiser Clifton; Memphis Minnie; the Beale Street Rounders; the Delta Boys; Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band; the well-known Memphis Jug Band and their star vocalist, Minnie Wallace; and five recordings released under one of the group's aliases, the Picaninny Jug Band. Memphis Shakedown was released on the heels of JSP's equally expansive and worthwhile four-CD set Memphis Jug Band with Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, and works well as a sequel to that anthology. For those who thrive on this kind of music, obtaining both boxes would be a very sensible move. -- Allmusic.
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 69:34
Size: 160,3 MB
Covers: Full
Tracks 1 - 25 : South Memphis Jug Band
(2:50) 1. Highway No. 61 Blues
(2:49) 2. Highway No. 61 Blues No. 2
(3:04) 3. Red Ripe Tomatoes
(2:52) 4. Believe I'll Go Back Home
(3:00) 5. Country Woman
(3:12) 6. Cheatin' Woman
(3:13) 7. Ko-Ko-Mo Blues (Take 1)
(3:11) 8. Ko-Ko-Mo Blues (Take 2)
(3:05) 9. Cold Iron Bed
(3:07) 10. R.F.C. Blues
(2:56) 11. Policy Rag
(2:58) 12. President Blues
(2:44) 13. Highway No. 61 Blues
(2:51) 14. Cadillac Baby
(2:58) 15. Doctor Medicine
(2:30) 16. Lightnin' Blues
(2:27) 17. Betty Sue Blues
(2:35) 18. Flower Blues
(2:24) 19. Joe Louis Special
(2:26) 20. High Behind Blues
(2:21) 21. You Done Done It
(2:30) 22. Diamond Buyer Blues
(2:28) 23. World Wandering Blues
(2:24) 24. Neck Bone Blues
(2:25) 25. Men Fooler Blues
Memphis Shakedown Disc A
Memphis Shakedown Disc A artwork
Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc B
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 72:37
Size: 167,4 MB
Covers: Full
Tracks 1 - 5 : Picaninny Jug Band
Tracks 6 - 21 : Memphis Jug Band
Tracks 22 - 25 : Kaiser Clifton
(2:42) 1. You Gotta Have That Thing
(2:30) 2. Tappin' That Thing
(2:28) 3. Bottle It Up and Go
(2:40) 4. I Got Good Taters
(3:16) 5. Come Along Little Children
(3:12) 6. Mary Ann Cut Off
(3:03) 7. My Love Is Cold
(2:55) 8. Jazzbo Stomp
(2:47) 9. Gator Wobble
(2:57) 10. Tear It Down, Bed Slats and All
(2:58) 11. Boodie Bum Bum
(2:50) 12. Take Your Finger Off It
(2:56) 13. Little Green Slippers
(2:59) 14. Fishin' in the Dark
(2:57) 15. Bottle It Up and Go
(3:06) 16. Insane Crazy Blues
(2:51) 17. She Done Sold It Out
(2:53) 18. Memphis Shakedown
(2:54) 19. Rukus Juice and Chittlin'
(3:22) 20. My Business Ain't Right
(3:09) 21. Jug Band Quartette
(2:54) 22. Cash Money Blues
(2:50) 23. Forth Worth & Denver Blues
(2:44) 24. She'll Be Back Someday
(2:34) 25. Teach Me Right from Wrong
Memphis Shakedown Disc B
Memphis Shakedown Disc B artwork
Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc C
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 74:08
Size: 170,9 MB
Covers: Full
Tracks 1 - 7 : Noah Lewis
Tracks 8 - 15 : Jed Davenport
Tracks 16 - 17 : Beale Street Rounders
Tracks 18 - 19 : Memphis Minnie
Tracks 20 - 25 : The Delta Boys
(2:40) 1. Ticket Agent Blues
(2:42) 2. New Minglewood Blues
(2:45) 3. Selling the Jelly
(2:50) 4. Bad Luck's My Buddy
(3:18) 5. Chickasaw Special
(2:55) 6. Devil in the Woodpile
(3:04) 7. Like I Want to Be
(3:00) 8. How Long, How Long Blues
(2:49) 9. Cow Cow Blues
(2:58) 10. Beale Street Breakdown
(3:19) 11. You Ought to Move Out of Town
(3:04) 12. The Dirty Dozen
(2:58) 13. Jug Blues
(2:49) 14. Save Me Some
(2:56) 15. Piccolo Blues
(2:49) 16. I'm Sittin' on Top of the World
(3:01) 17. Talkin' 'bout Yo-Yo
(2:53) 18. Bumble Bee Blues
(3:17) 19. Meningitis Blues
(3:11) 20. Don't You Want to Know
(2:33) 21. You Shoudn't Do That
(3:02) 22. When the Saints Go Marching In
(2:57) 23. Black Gal Swing
(2:52) 24. Get Up and Go
(3:12) 25. Every Time My Heart Beats
Memphis Shakedown Disc C
Memphis Shakedown Disc C artwork
Album: Memphis Shakedown Disc D
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2005
Styles: Blues
Time: 65:58
Size: 152,0 MB
Covers: Full
Tracks 1 - 20 : Charlie Burse
Tracks 21 - 24 : Minnie Wallace
(2:25) 1. Beale Street Holiday
(2:49) 2. Baby, You Win
(2:42) 3. Oil It Up and Go
(2:39) 4. What's the Matter with the Well
(2:37) 5. I'm in Buddy's Wagon
(2:39) 6. Good Potatoes on the Hill
(2:48) 7. Weed Smoking Mama
(2:46) 8. Dawn of Day Blues
(2:44) 9. Goldie May
(2:29) 10. Scared to Death
(2:28) 11. You Better Watch Out
(2:43) 12. Too Much Beef
(2:39) 13. Magic Spell Blues
(2:41) 14. It Makes No Difference Now
(2:50) 15. Radio Blues
(2:25) 16. Hell's Highway
(2:33) 17. It's Against the Rule
(2:38) 18. Ain't Gonna Be No Doggone Afterwhile
(2:42) 19. Memphis Highway Stomp
(2:54) 20. Brand New Day Blues
(2:58) 21. The Cockeyed World
(3:09) 22. Field Mouse Stomp
(3:27) 23. Let's All Do That Thing
(2:58) 24. Pick 'Em Up and Put 'Em Down
Memphis Shakedown Disc D
Memphis Shakedown Disc D artwork