All Around Men for all occasions.

Rent Parties, Jook Joints, Low Dives, Fish Fries, BBQs, Weddings and Funerals
Sporting Houses a speciality (reduced rates)

 

Audience participation is always encouraged

 

Sing-a-long to old favourites

Tap your feet to the syncopated melodies

Join in on the kazoos, jugs & percussion the RJO provide
Try the dance steps to accompany the intoxicating tunes -

The Cakewalk, The Eagle Rock or Grizzly Bear,

The Slow Drag, Shimmie-Sha-Wobble or Slow Grind

"Real Funky O' Butts!", Buddy Bolden 1904

"Kings of kazoo", Will Shade, Memphis Jug Band 1927

"I was Fightin' The Jug until I heard these boys", Blind Blake 1928

"They took me right back to my time on Beale Street", W C Handy 1936

"Too many silly instruments", Bonzo Dog 1965

 

The RJO evokes the authentic African American sound of the early 20th century, playing a good-time mix of ragtime, country blues, hokum, skiffle and jug band music.

 

On a variety of acoustic instrumentation the RJO bring you hits from the levees of St Louis, the Beale Street bars of Memphis, the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta and the famed sporting houses of New Orleans.

 

The RJO advice is always - "Just Get Drunk and Truck"