Friday, July 15, 2011

mississippi jook band















The Mississippi Jook Band met in a hotel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to produce some of the earliest rock and roll recordings. Blind Roosevelt Graves and his brother Uaroy Graves were known for their spiritual guitar boogie. Cooney Vaughn was a local piano player who performed on a weekly radio show. Paramount talent scout H.C. Speir brought them together for their only session together at a temporary studio in the Hotel Hattiesburg where made these classic tracks. Roosevelt played guitar and sang, Uaroy played tambourine and kazoo, and Vaughn went crazy on the keys.










'Skippy Whippy'



'Hittin' The Bottle Stomp'




'Dangerous Woman'



'Barbecue Bust'

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