Terrible Operation Blues (Devine's Jug Band)
StreetDate: 11/17/2009 (PFR002)
—— Tracklist ——
1 4th Street Mess Around  (3:23)
2 The Dallas Rag  
3 New Orleans Hop Scop Blues  
5 Ted's Stomp  
6 Spider's Nest Blues  
7 The Donald Rag  (2:12)
8 Too Long  
9 Sadie Green  
10 Beaver Slide Rag  
11 Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown  
12 Jackson Stomp  
13 Low Down Blues  
14 El Remolino  
15 The Lindberg Hop  
16 What Makes My Baby Cry  
A humble slice of Americana gets a bracing jolt of contemporary energy with “Terrible Operation Blues,” the dazzling debut of Devine’s Jug Band, a San Francisco ensemble wise to the ways of the weird old Southwest. Launched by vocalist and jug master Pete Devine, who earned his old-time stripes as drummer in the revered ragtime band Bo Grumpus, DJB features fiddler/vocalist Mayumi Urgino, guitarist/vocalist Meredith Axelrod and a rotating cast of string experts on a program of salty blues, sassy stomps, and raucous rags. This is party music for hard times, which is to say it sounds more relevant than ever.
Credits 
Album art by Nick Sung
Personnel:
Pete Devine - vocals, jug, washboard, cheek-o-phone
Meredith Axelrod - guitar, vocals
Mayumi Urgino - fiddle, vocals
with
Bill Foss, Morgan Cochneuer and Jacob Groopman - banjo-mandolin
and special guests
Tommy Marion - guitar, banjo
Rob Reic - piano
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