Whistler & His Jug Band

Whistler & His Jug Music group was a long-lasting and popular group that recorded for a number of labels through the mid-’20s through the first ’30s, and influenced lots of the jug rings that followed. The group was shaped in 1915 in Louisville, KY by guitarist, vocalist and whistler Buford Threlkeld, and experienced occasional lineup adjustments over time, but fiddler Jess Ferguson and banjo participant Willie Black had been steady people of Whistler & His Jug Music group for over ten years. The jazz-influenced jug music group first came into the documenting studios in Sept, 1924 if they journeyed to Richmond, Directly into cut several edges for the Gennett label. These included “Chicago Turn” “Jail Home Blues” and “I’m a Jazz Baby,” in addition to tracks that proceeded to go unissued such as for example “The Vampire Female.” The next documenting trip for Whistler & His Jug Music group took these to St. Louis in Apr, 1927. Upon this trip, the jug music group documented 10 tracks for Okeh, including “Low Down Blues,” “The Vamps of 28” and “Pig Meats Blues.” The jug participant during this program was 13 yr older Rudolph Thompson, who was simply still using the group by enough time of the next recording program in June, 1931. This time around, the music group surely got to record within their hometown of Louisville. “Keep That Tiger” and “Foldin’ Bed” are a number of the tracks that they documented for Victor in this program.