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Gus Cannon

An extraordinary musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the difference between early blues as well as the minstrel and folk designs that preceded it. His music group from the ’20s and ’30s, Cannon’s Jug Stompers, represents the apogee from the jug music group style. …

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