Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams

Subject: Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams
From: GUEST,bmerlin
Date: 16 May 04 - 08:24 PM

I recently acquired Lucinda William's "Ramblin" cd and would like to know lyrics to the recorded version of "Jug Band Music" which is different from John Sebastian's version (lyrically anyway). Anyone able to assist?

Thanks!
bmerlin

Subject: Lyr Add: JUG BAND MUSIC (from Memphis Jug Band)
From: RWilhelm
Date: 17 May 04 - 10:23 AM

I love jug band music and I love Lucinda Williams but I'm having cognitive dissonance trying to imagine them together. Could it be this song, originally by the Memphis Jug Band?



Jug Band Music
The Memphis Jug Band

Way down South in Memphis Tennessee
Jug band music sounds so sweet to me

Chorus
Well it sounds so sweet
Oh       It's hard to beat
Jug band music certainly was a treat to me

Went to my Gal put my hand on her knee
Said if you can't play the jug you can't play with me

Went back home turned on my radio
Jug band music made me stomp down my floor

I put on my socks, I put on my shoes
I danced all night to the jug band blues

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams
From: GUEST,bmerlin
Date: 17 May 04 - 09:50 PM

Hey Earl:
Thanks! That's the one! She recorded it on Folkways in 1978 I guess, and it is a fine pile of tunes, but this one really shines. I think they must be tuned down/up (I'm so bad at knowing which is which) a half-tone/tone or so, because I haven't been able to figure out which key they are playing in on most of the cd. The song is attributed to the Memphis Jug Band. Thanks again!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams
From: RWilhelm
Date: 18 May 04 - 12:06 AM

bmerlin,

I'll have to check out the album, I'm only familiar with LW's newer stuff; a little bit more intensly personal than most jug band tunes. I know she can rock, maybe she can rag too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams
From: harpgirl
Date: 18 May 04 - 12:11 AM

hint...lucinda plays a twelve string on this album

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jugband Music ala Lucinda Williams
From: GerryM
Date: 20 May 23 - 02:08 AM

The LP has an insert where it says,

Jug Band Music, the Memphis Jug Band's highly popular song, with additional verses by Geoff Muldaur, moves in the fashion of a country hoedown with quick undercurrents of the blues (listen to Babe Stovall's "Salty Dog", for instance). The Memphis Jug Band recorded in Memphis in the late 20's and early 30's.

The lyrics given in the insert are very like those given by R Wilhelm upthread:

Way down South in Memphis, Tennessee,
Jug band music sounds so sweet to me,

Chorus:
'Cause it sounds so sweet, it's a-hard to beat,
ra-ta-tutti,
Jug band music certainly was a treat for me.

Well, I went up to my man, put my hand on his knee,
Said, if you can't play the jug, you can't play with me,

Then I took off my socks, I took of my shoes,
I danced all night to them Jug band blues,

And then I went back home, turned on my radio,
Jug band music made me stomp down slow,

Repeat first verse, then last chorus goes

'Cause it sounds so sweet, it's a-hard to beat,
ra-ta-tutti,
Jug band music certainly was a treat for,
Jug band music certainly was a treat for,
Jug band music certainly was a treat for me.