This week, Bucksnort, Tennessee based old school Memphis style jug band the Jake Leg Stompers recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with this band of musical outlaws.

A Jake Leg Stompers show is a truly unique experience. Like a Vaudeville party with all the bells and whistles. Literally, their show includes bells and whistles. With lively renditions of classic blues and jug band tunes from early 20th century American music and a theatrical sensibility, the Jake Leg Stompers will have you dancing in your seat. The band’s performers include leader Hambone Willie Nevil on vocals, banjo, and guitar, Lela Mae Smith on vocals, Horatio Algernon Whiplash on washboard, snare, bells, and whistles, Jersey Slim Hawkins with fiddle, mandolin, and guitar, and Ramshackle Jack Dunshee on old time jug.

For more information about the Jake Leg Stompers…

http://www.jakelegstompers.com/about

In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, musician, educator, and country music legacy Mark Jones offers an archival recording of hammered dulcimer master Jay Round performing the traditional tune “Saint Anne’s Reel,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives.

From his series entitled “Back in the Hills,” writer, professor, and historian Dr. Brooks Blevins explores the history of the Ozark Opry, one of the first old time barn dance music stage shows based in Springfield, Missouri.