Active from 1962 Record label Fat Possum Records | Genre Blues | |
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Albums Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, Off Yonder Wall Members Sam Carr, Big Jack Johnson Similar Frank Frost, Robert Nighthawk, T‑Model Ford, Paul "Wine" Jones, Super Chikan | ||
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The Jelly Roll Kings were an electric Delta blues band. The members of the band were Frank Frost (keyboard/harmonica), Big Jack Johnson (guitar) and Sam Carr (drums). Some of their most well-known songs included "The Jelly Roll King", and "Catfish Blues".
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Career
The three had been playing together irregularly from 1962 and into the seventies under the name The Nighthawks. In 1979 they were invited by Michael Frank to record now as The Jelly Roll Kings, their debut Rockin' the Juke Joint Down, which was a debut release of Earwig Music Company too. In the following years they kept performing separately, but were recorded again. Fat Possum Records released the Kings 1997 follow-up, Off Yonder Wall. It was produced by Robert Palmer, and included tracks such as "That's Alright Mama" and "Baby Please Don't Go."
Frank Frost died in 1999, Sam Carr followed in 2009, and Big Jack Johnson in 2011.
Discography
Songs
Have Mercy BabyRockin' the Juke Joint Down · 1979
Road of LoveRockin' the Juke Joint Down · 1979
Frank Frost BluesOff Yonder Wall · 1997