Birmingham Jug Band

The Birmingham Jug Band were one of the first and one of the most raucous and most irrepressible jug bands ever to record. It's varied repertoire reflects the general diversity of African American music in the deep south in the late 1920's. Early jug bands were typically made up of African American vaudeville and medicine show musicians. Beginning in the urban south, they played a mixture of Memphis blues (even before it was formally called the blues), ragtime, and jazz music.