Bill Keith

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  • Born: Boston, MA
  • Years Active: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

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Bill Keith may refer to:

Bill Keith (artist), painter, photographer and visual poetBill Keith (musician), banjo player and innovator of the "melodic style" of banjo playingBill Keith (Louisiana politician), author and a member of the Louisiana State Senate from Caddo Parish from 1980-1984William H. Keith, Jr., action/adventure and military science fiction author

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Gus Cannon and the Rise of Jug Band Music

By John Morthland, eMusic Contributor

Jug band music originated in Louisville, Kentucky, around 1905, but reached its fullest flowering in Memphis in the 1920s. Though there were others, two groups in particular dominated Beale Street: the Memphis Jug Band, led by Will Shade, and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers. The former came first and was more popular at the time, but it's the Cannon/Stompers legacy that has best endured. In 1963 the Rooftop Singers, a Greenwich Village folk trio featuring Erik… more »