Chicken Shack Jukebox

A step back in history circa 1941 Clarksdale Mississippi. I found this info in the book “Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues” by Elijah Wald. In the index there were lists of the records in the jukeboxes in various juke-joints at that time. This list was compiled by the Fisk University-Library of Congress team. This team included Samuel Adams, Lewis Jones , Alan Lomax and John Work. These lists, give us a chance to hear what was being played in the juke-joints at the time of the great country blues artists. Not all music listened to by these patrons was blues related. Many were focused on dancing. All in all..an interesting slice of American music history!

I have compiled from various sources (hence various bit-rates) two of the juke-joints visited. Presented here...is the first.