Monday, December 26, 2016

Mother's McGee Uptown Jug Champions - Top of the Tangent (1999)



Recorded live 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 Grateful Dead, and included three future members of that band — Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.

Tracklist:
"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" (traditional)
"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)

ALAC - HERE!

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