Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers - Okeh 8559 (1928)

Traded away a copy I had found in Georgia several years ago but it had an issue. (First trade I ever entered into)

Although this one has an issue as well...it's worn slap out...very happy to have a copy back on the shelf.

Haven't been able to nail it down but members of the Memphis Jug Band may have accompanied on these sides.

Recorded in Memphis on February 28, 1928.

Chickasaw Syncopators - Columbia 14301 (1927)

Here's a group of students from Manassas High School in Tennessee who shared the same PE teacher...Jimmie Lunceford.

Charlie Douglas, Henry Clay, t / H. B. Hall, tb / Christopher Johnson, __ Williams, as / George Clarke, ts / Bobby Brown, p / Alfred Cahns, bj / Moses Allen, bb, preaching / Jimmy Crawford, d.

Recorded in Memphis on December 13, 1927.

Jimmie Lunceford & His Chickasaw Syncopators - Victor 38141 (1930)

Jimmie Lunceford as, dir. ? Sy Oliver another t / ? Henry Wells tb / Willie Smith as / Earl Carrothers or George Clark ts / Edwin Wilcox p / bj / Moses Allen bb, preaching / Jimmy Crawford d. 

Recorded in Memphis on June 6, 1930.

Minnie Wallace - Victor 38547 (1929)

Needing to go for a drive this afternoon to clear my head, I aimed for Alabama's Gulf Coast and of course had to stop here and there looking for records.

Came across one place that had a room full of "dollar records" and promptly started digging. Came away with a Hank on MGM, a handful of Jimmie Rodgers, a few nondescript country sides and some Japanese pressed stuff.

But it was the name I didn't recognize that had me cautiously optimistic. Although I didn't know of the artist, I knew enough to snatch a Victor 38000...especially a high numbered one...AND for a buck to boot. (In contrast, the Hank set me back $5...so much for honoring the dollar room.)

After several hours, I've just gotten home, done a little internet research, cleaned the record and transferred the audio...revealing a pleasant surprise.

Here's Minnie Wallace accompanied by the Memphis Jug Band.

Minnie Wallace v / Will Shade harmonica / Milton Robie vn / Ben Ramey kazoo (side-A) / Jab Jones jug / Charlie Burse g.

Recorded in Memphis on September 23, 1929.

Memphis Jug Band - Victor 20552 & 21066 (1927)

Although I had posted Beale Street Mess Around a while back here...I never got around to posting the flip side...until now.

I've just now found their very first recording/release to go along with it.

Will Shade h, g, v / Ben Ramey k / Will Weldon g, v / Charlie Polk jug.

Recorded in Memphis on February 24, 1927.

From their fourth & final recording session of 1927...

Will Shade h, g, v / Ben Ramey k, v / Vol Stevens bj, md, g, v / Will Weldon g, v / Charlie Polk jug.

Recorded in Atlanta on October 20, 1927.

Sonny Jones - Vocalion 05056 (1939)

Didn't find too much information on Sonny Jones but did come across this from his son's entry in Wikipedia:

Guitar Gabriel (Robert Lewis Jones) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, moving to Winston-Salem, North Carolina at age five. His father, Sonny Jones (also known as Jack Jones, James Johnson, and as Razorblade for an act in which he ate razor blades, mason jars, and light bulbs) recorded for Vocalion Records in 1939 in Memphis, accompanied by Sonny Terry and Oh Red (George Washington). Sonny Jones also recorded a single for the Orchid label in Baltimore in 1950 (as Sunny Jones). His family, who grew up sharecropping, shared a talent for music. His great-grandmother, an ex-slave, called set dances and played the banjo; his grandfather played banjo and his grandmother the pump organ; his father and uncle were blues guitarists and singers and his sisters sang blues and gospel.

Recorded in July of 1939 in Memphis. Is Sonny Terry and Oh Red present?