Gus Cannon

Gus Cannon

Gus Cannon

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Top Songs

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Selling the Jelly
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Bad Luck's My Buddy
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Ticket Agent Blues
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Like I Want to Be
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Pretty Mama Blues

Albums

  • Cannon & Lewis

    Jan 2025 • 10 songs

  • Jugs' Collection

    Mar 2023 • 11 songs

  • Jazz Gipsy Blues

    Oct 2021 • 11 songs

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Gus Cannon

Biography

A remarkable musician (he could play five-string banjo and jug simultaneously), Gus Cannon bridged the gap between early blues and the minstrel and folk styles that preceded it. His band of the '20s and '30s, Cannon's Jug Stompers, represents the apogee of the jug band style. Songs they recorded, notably the raggy "Walk Right In," were staples of the folk repertoire decades later, and Cannon himself continued to record and perform into the 1970s. Self-taught on an instrument made from a frying pan and a raccoon skin, he learned early repertoire in the 1890s from older musicia...
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