Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (album)
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions | ||||
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Live album by Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions | ||||
Released | 1999 | |||
Recorded | July 1964 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 49:05 | |||
Label | Grateful Dead Records | |||
Producer | Michael Wanger | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Music Box | [2] |
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions is an American folk music album. It was recorded live by the band of the same name at the Top of the Tangent coffee house in Palo Alto, California in July, 1964, and released in 1999.
The band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a precursor of the rock group the Grateful Dead, and included three future members of that band – Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.
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Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions includes several songs that were later played in concert by the Grateful Dead – "Overseas Stomp" (also known as "Lindy"), "Ain't It Crazy" (a.k.a. "The Rub"), "On the Road Again", "The Monkey and the Engineer", and "Beat It On Down the Line".
Track listing
- "Overseas Stomp" (Will Shade)
- "Ain't It Crazy" (Sam "Lightning" Hopkins)
- Boo break
- "Yes She Do, No She Don't" (Peter DeRose, Jo Trent)
- "Memphis" (Chuck Berry)
- "Boodle Am Shake" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams)
- "Big Fat Woman" (Huddie Ledbetter)
- "Borneo" (Walter Donaldson)
- "My Gal" (traditional)
- "Shake That Thing" (Papa Charlie Jackson)
- "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller)
- "Cocaine Habit Blues" (traditional)
- "Beedle Um Bum" (Booker T. Bradshaw)
- "On the Road Again" (traditional)
- "The Monkey and the Engineer" (Jesse Fuller)
- "In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers)
- "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" (Jack Yellen, Milton Ager)
- Band interview
Personnel
Musicians
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, kazoo, banjo, vocals
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – harmonica, vocals
- jug, kazoo, vocals
- Dave Parker – washboard, kazoo, tin cup, vocals
- Tom Stone – banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals
- Mike Garbett – washtub bass, guitar, kazoo
Production
- Produced by Michael Wanger
- Recorded live at the Tangent by Pete Wanger and Wayne Ott
- CD mastered by Jeffrey Norman, Club Front
- Cover art by Timothy Truman
- Package design by Gecko Graphics
- Jerry Garcia photo by Hank Harrison/Arkives
- Pigpen photo by Joe Novakovich/Arkives
- Bob Weir photo courtesy Weir family archives
- Special thanks to John Cutler and Peter McQuaid
References
- AllMusic
- ^ Metzter, John (May 1999). Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, The Music Box
Sources
- "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