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b. c.1905, Mississippi, USA, d. c.1960, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Kelly’s 1st jug band, shaped in 1925, included Frank Stokes, Dan Sane and can Batts. Kelly, Batts, Sane and juggist D.M. Higgs documented as the South Memphis Jug Music group in 1933. (Kelly, Batts and a guitarist, probably Ernest Lawlars, documented …

Singer/guitarist Jack port Kelly was the frontman from the South Memphis Jug Music group, a favorite string music group whose music owed much debt towards the blues in addition to minstrel tracks, vaudeville amounts, reels and rags. Small is known from the hoarse-voiced Kelly’s roots; he led the group in …