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	Gus Cannon - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gus Cannon (September 12, 1883 - October 15, 1979) was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s.
		Cannon's musical skills came without training; he taught himself to play using an improvised instrument made from a frying pan and raccoon skin.
		By the end of the 1930s, though, Cannon had retired, returning in 1956 to make a few recordings for Folkways.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Gus_Cannon (122 words)

	Gus Cannon b
		As a youth, Cannon was a proficient fiddler, as well as a guitarist and pianist, but his main instrument was the banjo.
		Cannon, whose parents had been slaves, made his first banjo at the age of 12 from a guitar neck and a bread pan.
		It was as Banjo Joe that Cannon appeared on the ‘medicine shows’ every summer from 1914-29, working as a farm labourer during the winter months While in Chicago with a medicine show he recorded for Paramount in 1927, with Blind Blake on guitar.
	www.centrohd.com /bio/bio9/gus_cannon_b.htm (266 words)

	Memphis Jug Band - Biography
		Gus Cannon was born on September 12, 1883, in Bed Banks, Mississippi (Marshall County).
		Cannon was able to strap a jug around his neck so that he could blow into it and play his banjo at the same time.
		Cannon led his Jug Stompers on banjo and jug in a historic series of dates for the Victor label in 1928-1930.
	www.jugstore.com /guscannon.html (641 words)

	GUS CANNON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gus Cannon had one of those lives that are almost too impossible to believe, although as you listen to the narration on this CD you can hear first-hand just how real these experiences were as the gravelly voice explain the roots of his lyrics.
		Cannon always obliged -- the renewed attention was good, not only for his pocketbook, but also his creative ego.
		In 1963, Cannon's vocals and banjo-playing were accompanied by Will Shade on jug and Milton Roby on washboard for this Stax Record release.
	staxrecords.250free.com /cannon.htm (568 words)

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		S.E.V. Cannon, 115 East Oklahoma avenue, Monday, of the death of her son, Guss Cannon, in France, October 17, 1918, from wounds received in action.
		Gus Cannon, who died October 17, 1918, in one of the admirable hospitals at Rouen, France, and which were buried in St. Sever cemetery, to notify our government that she prefers that they be permitted to rest there for all time.
		Cannon, there are hundreds of its readers in Caddo county and elsewhere, now that the subject is uppermost, who will be disposed to thank us for affording them the opportunity to read this description of St. Sever's cemetery.
	www.rootsweb.com /~okcaddo/military/ww1/cannon_guss.txt (820 words)

	Anorak of Fire: The Life and Times of Gus Gascoigne, Trainspotter - Midlands Arts Centre - macarts.co.uk
		Gus Gascoigne - the 'James Bond of Trainspotting' - is at mac to open up the magical world of 'spotting' to a whole new generation of potential anorak owners.
		Flask and sandwiches to hand, Gus is ready to dance to ‘the distant beat of diesel.’ He's proud to wear his anorak - the anorak of fire – as well he should be, for it's been handed down by one of the greatest spotters who ever lived.
		Join Gus on a touching, ironic and consistently hilarious rollercoaster journey in the front carriage of his train-obsessed world.
	www.macarts.co.uk /?page=event.html&id=483 (252 words)

	Long Time Coming: Cannon's Jug Stompers
		Cannon's Jug Stompers was a highly-skilled three man band that originally consisted of Gus Cannon, Noah Lewis, and Ashley Thomson.
		Walk Right In (Gus Cannon) (Stax 702) Information on this Stax record that was originally released in 1963 during Gus's "rediscovery" period.
		Gus Cannon: Historical Tour A two-part "historical tour" devoted mainly to Gus Cannon, which at one time, had numerous audio clips.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/jugstompers/main.html (627 words)

	GUS CANNON
		Cannon was the son of slaves, born in Memphis in 1883.
		He made his first banjo from a guitar neck and a bread pan and although his favorite instrument throughout his life was the banjo, he was also proficient on the fiddle, guitar, and piano.
		His unselfconscious narrative on each of the songs and the events that inspired the lyrics is like having a conversation with an old friend.
	staxrecords.free.fr /cannon.htm (568 words)

	Trail of the Hellhound: Cannon's Jug Stompers
		During the 1910s and 1920s, Cannon also joined Jim Jackson for medicine shows, playing, juggling, and doing comedy routines in the role of "Banjo Joe." He supported his family through a variety of jobs, including sharecropping, ditch digging, and yard work, but supplemented his income with music.
		Cannon recorded as "Banjo Joe" in November 1927 for Paramount Records but strapped on a jug and quickly assembled a jug band after the success of the Memphis Jug Band's first records.
		Cannon's Jug Stompers were one of Beale Street's most popular jug bands during the 1920s and 1930s, their fame culminating in an appearance in the film Hallelujah!
	www.cr.nps.gov /delta/blues/people/cannons_jugstompers.htm (357 words)

	Gus Cannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gus Cannon was a fascinating character and musician.
		It was about this time that Cannon met up with harmonica player Noah Lewis and they formed a partnership which a few years later became the basis of a band formed by Cannon, the 'Jug Stompers'.
		Cannon also continued to gig solo at parties, juke joints and clubs in the Memphis area, and in the late 1950's and 1960's he enjoyed more success during the folk boom of that era, recording again for the Folkways label.
	www.the-blindman.com /vids/gus.htm (281 words)

	Gus Cannon -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cannon's musical skills came without training; he taught himself to play using an improvised instrument made from a frying pan and (An omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America) raccoon skin.
		Cannon began recording in (Click link for more info and facts about 1927) 1927, both alone and with Lewis, Hosea Wood, (Click link for more info and facts about Blind Blake) Blind Blake and Ashley Thompson.
		By the end of the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s, though, Cannon had retired, returning in (Click link for more info and facts about 1956) 1956 to make a few recordings for (Click link for more info and facts about Folkways) Folkways.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gu/Gus_Cannon.htm (122 words)

	The Best Of Cannon's Jug Stompers
		Between 1928 and 1930, Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers recorded 26 songs for Victor, and there were a couple of duets by Cannon and Hosea Woods; Gus had also recorded half a dozen sides for Paramount, as Banjo Joe, towards the end of 1927.
		Their repertoire also extends well beyond blues, as might be expected; Gus Cannon was born in 1883, and by the time he heard his first blues, around 1900, he was a fully fledged banjo player, and singer of songs like Old John Booker and Ain't Gonna Rain No More.
		The Gus Cannon who recorded that song was a middle aged man who had to put up with being addressed as 'boy' by white people, and who knew that it was wise both to avoid 'the man with headache stick', and to describe police brutality in such euphemistic terms.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/cannon.htm (802 words)

	Cannon's Jug Stompers
		Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers were a group of semi-professional musicians from the Memphis, Tennessee area.
		Cannon's Jug Stompers recording career lasted only three years but their music lived on into the Folk and Rock eras.
		The Rooftop Singers had a number one hit record in 1963 with their cover version of the group's song "Walk Right In" and the melody of the Lovin' Spoonful's 1965 song a "Younger Girl" was also based on Cannon's Jug Stompers' "Prison Wall Blues." The Critters had a minor hit with "Younger Girl" in 1966.
	www.redhotjazz.com /cjs.html (164 words)

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		I mean Gus had bitches lining up outside of his room 24 hours a day.
		The cell phone is broken.) (Quick flashback to GUS KENYON on his cell phone, looking at it, then smashing it against the wall in frustration.
		She looks inside and sees GUS KENYON passed out on the bed.) SAMANTHA DEAN: (v.o.) I'm not sure now what I was going to do but...
	www.twiztv.com /scripts/csi/season3/csi-305.txt (10217 words)

	CATALOG: GUS CANNON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because only 500 copies were pressed, legendary Memphis banjo picker and singer Gus Cannon's 1963 album for Stax Records has been heard--let alone seen--by very few record collectors, making it among the rarest of all blues LPs.
		Cannon reprised "Walk Right In" and 11 other raggy numbers for Stax from his vast repertoire, along with some fascinating, humor-laced reminiscences.
		Will Shade, Cannon's one-time rival in the jug-band business, is the jug blower, and Milton Roby supplies rural rhythms on washboard.
	www.fantasyjazz.com /catalog/cannon_g_cat.html (205 words)

	Savannah Courier 4
		Gus has been under arrest several times, but of late he has eluded all efforts to effect his capture.
		Gus is now under a sentence of 15 years for the murder of Dr.
		Oct 15, 1897 - Gus Thomas Attempts Escape: Last Saturday evening when the guards in the penitentiary lined the prisoners up to be in their cells for the night Gus Thomas was missing.
	www.rootsweb.com /~tnnews/sc004.htm (3529 words)

	Cannon's Jug Stompers
		Gus Cannon was born September 12, 1883 on Henderson Newell's plantation in Marshall County Mississippi.
		Gus got his first real banjo when he was 15; his brother won it in a crap game.
		Gus would spend his weekends in nearby Ripley, and it was here on a Sunday afternoon in that he met Noah Lewis.
	www.taco.com /roots/cannon.html (1507 words)

	Fathers, Sons, and Brothers, Book One (book) by James 'Gus' Filegar on AuthorsDen
		Cannon could be heard as they fired in groups of three or four at a time.
		Horses bellows, the crack of muskets that fired and cannon that belched yellow flame and shell, became an ominous chorus of death and destruction, all right in their view and earshot.
		The reader can hear the rifle and cannon fire, the cries of the wounded and dying and see the bloody aftermath of the battlefields.
	www.authorsden.com /visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=9690 (3944 words)

	RoaldDahlFans.com - Books - "The Gremlins" Page 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Gremlin Gus didn't seem to respond to the postage-stamp treatment, and Gus himself became more and more worried.
		It came to a head one morning not long afterward when Gus was dicing with a bunch of Messerschmitt 109's and Heinkel 111's over the Channel.
		He saw smoke pouring out of his starboard wing just where his gas tank was, and through the smoke he saw Gremlin Gus kneeling down and playing the white-hot flame of an enormous blow torch through a hole in the smolderig wing onto the tank itself.
	www.roalddahlfans.com /books/grempage23.php (277 words)

	Gus Cannon
		When Gus Cannon came to Memphis and put together his classic Cannon's Jug Stompers he was already in his forties and had done some earlier recordings under the name Banjo Joe.
		Although never as prominent as the Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers soon became important in the music scene of Memphis.
		Fronted by Noah Lewis' voice and harmonica, and powered by Cannon's jazz-inspired banjo, the band was definitely a force to be reconned with.
	www.blues-banjo.com /masters/cannon-gus.html (101 words)

	CANNON'S JUG STOMPERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cannon was posthumously honored on April 23, 1995, in Memphis, when the
		Cannon died a bitter old man, according to those who knew him.
		Rest in Peace, Gus Cannon, Rest in Peace...
	www.oafb.net /once61.html (267 words)

	The Philly Wire: Gus Cannon
		Cannon's musical skills came without training; he taught himself to play using an improvised instrument made from a frying pan and raccoon skin.He began playing in Memphis in the 1900s with Noah Lewis and Jim Jackson, then started working in medicine shows in 1914.
		Cannon began recording in 1927, both alone and with Lewis, Hosea Wood, Blind Blake and Ashley Thompson.By the end of the 1930s, though, Cannon had retired, returning in 1956 to make a few recordings for Folkways.
		Memphis banjo player gus cannon's music career dated back to around 1900, as he spent the century's first 15 years as a...
	www.phillywire.com /Gus_Cannon.html (653 words)

	Jug Band Rag ... Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cannon in life, but I have heard his voice and played his music for 30 years, and recently I have read many interviews with him and accounts of his life.
		They picked Gus Cannon first because they knew where he is buried, and that his is a low flat grave marker at risk of being covered right over by crabgrass and kudzu.
		The copper must have been highly polished when Gus was playing it regularly, but now it has a fine patina and is the color of an old penny.
	home.earthlink.net /%7Ejugband/main/fame.htm (2514 words)

	Jug Band Rag ... Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cannon was posthumously honored on April 23, 1995, in Memphis, when the Beale Street Blues Society hosted a day long "mess around." In 1979, he died in poverty at the age of 104.
		The jug hangs in a leather harness so hands are not needed to play it; Cannon was able to play banjo at the same time as he played the jug.
		At the Cannon Memorial service, Fritz noted that he and John Sebastian coincidentally wore the same type raincoat to the tribute, and also had similar straw hats and sunglasses.
	home.earthlink.net /~jugband/main/fame.htm (2514 words)

	Gus Cannon : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gus Cannon was one of the great music masters of his time.
		His various groups includiong his most famous, the Cannon Jug Stompers, were at the height of Black blues, fl string band music, and any kind of banjo playing for his time.
		It's great, don't get me wrong, but this only half of the Cannon Jug Stomper's catalog, and Yazoo does fans a real disservice, being so misleading in their titling of this product.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/artistsearch_Gus%20Cannon/mode_music (223 words)

	Gus Cannon & Noah Lewis: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order VOLUME 2 (12 September 1929 to 28 November ...
		Gus Cannon and Noah Lewis: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order VOLUME 2 (12 September 1929 to 28 November 1930)
		This Document release features the remainder of the Cannon's Jug Stompers cuts, along with two Beale Street Boys (Gus Cannon and Hosea Woods) cuts, the solo cuts recorded by Noah Lewis for Victor, and four Noah Lewis' Jug Band tracks.
		Track 21 was recorded in Memphis, TN on 28 November 1930 and originally released with Track 14 as Victor 23272 in 19??.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/jugstompers/document2.html (687 words)

	Furry Lewis with Bukka White and Gus Cannon CD Review
		There are five Furry Lewis tracks, three from Bukka White, and two from Gus Cannon (including "Goin' Back (to Memphis, TN)" which was not on the original release).
		Gus Cannon had previously worked alongside Lewis in Dr. Willie Lewis' medicine show.
		Although all three artists have long since died (Lewis in 1981, White in 1977, and Cannon in 1979), their legacy lives on.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/furrylewis-gb.html (603 words)

	Savannah Courier 5
		A 38 calibre cartridge of the rifle was near by.Suspicion pointed to Gus and Dick Thomas as the perpetrators of the bloody deed.
		It was the theory that Gus did the shooting and that Dick who was with him aided and abetted him as an accomplice.
		As Judge Caldwell reached the closing sentences in which the life of Gus hung in the balance his hand poised in the air a few seconds as he slowly fanned himself.
	www.rootsweb.com /~tnnews/sc005.htm (4598 words)

	Cannon's Jug Stompers: Albums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Discography General discography of Cannon's Jug Stompers and related.
		Gus Cannon: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 1 (Document 5032)
		Gus Cannon: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 2 (Document 5033)
	www.angelfire.com /folk/longtimecoming/jugstompers/albums.html (54 words)

	Gus Cannon CD - Gus Cannon CDs
		Gus Cannon CDs: These are Gus Cannon CDs for Gus Cannon fans.
		Gus Cannon - Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Vol.
		Bookmark Gus Cannon CDs today and buy a Gus Cannon CD if you are a Gus Cannon Fan.
	www.spinsilly.com /mall-cds-artists-Gus-Cannon.asp (505 words)

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