Mississippi Jook Band

Mississippi Jook Band Recording group at the 1936 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, sessions held by the ARC labels and supervised by the talent scout H. C. Speir. Its members consisted of singers/guitarists Roosevelt Graves and his brother Uaroy (or Aaron), and pianist Cooney Vaughan. Their recordings are valuable in part as they are the only recordings of Vaughan, a celebrated pianist of that time. In 1976 critic Robert Palmer cited these recordings as having “fully formed rock and roll guitar and a…