Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions était un groupe de musique folk précurseur de Grateful Dead car il a été la première collaboration musicale entre Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir et Ron Pigpen McKernan, membres fondateurs des Grateful Dead.

Les autres membres du groupe étaient Tom Stone, Dave Parker et Michael Garbett.

Le groupe n'a produit qu'un album. Il s'agit d'un album du concert au Top of the Tangent à Palo Alto en Californie en . Le disque est sorti en 1999.

Le disque

les morceaux

  1. "Overseas Stomp" (Will Shade)
  2. "Ain't It Crazy" (Sam "Lightning" Hopkins)
  3. Boo Break
  4. "Yes She Do, No She Don't" (Peter DeRose, Jo Trent)
  5. "Memphis" (Chuck Berry)
  6. "Boodle Am Shake" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams)
  7. "Big Fat Woman" (Huddie Ledbetter)
  8. "Borneo" (traditional)
  9. "My Gal" (traditional)
  10. "Shake That Thing" (Papa Charlie Jackson)
  11. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller)
  12. "Cocaine Habit Blues" (traditional)
  13. "Beedle Um Bum" (Booker T. Bradshaw)
  14. "On the Road Again" (traditional)
  15. "The Monkey and the Engineer" (Jesse Fuller)
  16. "In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers )
  17. "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" (Jack Yellen, Milton Ager)
  18. Interview du groupe

Musiciens

  • Jerry Garcia – guitare, kazoo, banjo, chant
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – harmonica, chant
  • Bob Weir – guitare, washtub bass, foot crusher, jug, kazoo, chant
  • Dave Parker – washboard, kazoo, tin cup, vocals
  • Tom Stone – banjo, mandoline, guitare, chant
  • Mike Garbett – washtub bass, guitare, kazoo

Références

  • "Random Notes on the Goo Goo Dolls, Sugar Ray and the Melvins", Rolling Stone, April 3, 1999
  • Hajdu, David. "Waking the Dead: The untold story of the Dead's first breaths", Rolling Stone, August 23, 2005
  • Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions on DeadDisc.com
  • Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions on producer Michael Wanger's web site
  • Parrish, Michael. "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions: The Folk Roots of the Grateful Dead", Dirty Linen #83 (August/September 1999)
  • McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, 2002, Broadway Books, (ISBN 0-7679-1185-7), pp. 66 – 67
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