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St Louis Tickle 1906 3:070:00/3:07
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Grizzly Bear 1911 2:400:00/2:40
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Casey Jones 1912 4:080:00/4:08
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The Sheik Waltz 1930 3:150:00/3:15
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0:00/3:07
There's 'A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight'. Sheriff Brady "came up in an electric car" and was shot by bartender Duncan (1890), Democrat Party vote fixer 'Stack' Lee Shelton killed Billy Lyons (1895), and 'Cakewalker' Frankie Baker shot her ragtime-pianist beau Al Britt "cos he done her wrong." (1899).
“I wouldn’t want to forget Targee Street (St Louis) as it was then. I wouldn’t want to forget the high roller Stetson hats of the men or the diamonds the girls wore in their ears.” W C Handy
By 1910 Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, 'Furry' Lewis and a young Memphis Minnie were performing in Memphis. W. C. Handy published 'Memphis Blues' in 1912 and 'St Louis Blues' in 1914 - both enormous sheet music 'hits' and immediately recorded. Black artists like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Ida Cox toured the South 'shouting' the blues in circus and minstrel tent shows, paving the way for the blues craze of the mid 'teens'.
String bands were common throughout the South, originally playing a shared repertoire of dance tunes.
White bands such as Charlie Poole's N.C.Ramblers or Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers mainly stuck to old time fiddle tunes, breakdowns and minstrel and ragtime pop.
Black bands like The Dallas String Band or The Mississippi Sheiks were bluesier and focused on 'good-time' dance music, with plenty of current hits - whether Vaudeville, pop songs, or ragtime, blues and jazz material.
Bands featuring a jug were seen in Louisville and on Mississippi Riverboats by 1900 and in Memphis by 1910. Memphis bands, like Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band or the Beale Street Jug Band show the transition from ragtime to blues and jazz but maintain a more 'country' feel.