Gus Cannon (b. Red Banks, Mississippi, September 12, 1883 - d. Memphis, October 15, 1979) was an African American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. Born on a plantation, Cannon moved to Clarksdale, then the home of W.C. Handy, at the age of 12. Wikipedia
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True, they brought the song into the popular music scene, but it was a little known banjo player who wrote and first recorded the song with his group, Cannon's Jug Stompers (Victor Records, 1930). staxrecords.free.fr/cannon.htm
