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The Dirt Daubers initially performed acoustic hot jazz, folk, [4] old-time and hillbilly music. [5] With the recording of Wild Moon, the band adopted electric instrumentation, shifting to a mix of styles which included jump blues, rhythm and blues, [6] electric blues, rock and roll, [5] rockabilly [4] [6] and country music.
Joshua "J. D." Wilkes (born April 18, 1972) is an American visual artist, musician, amateur filmmaker and author. [1] [2] He is best known as the singer for the rock band Legendary Shack Shakers, and is also an accomplished harmonica player, having recorded for such artists as Merle Haggard, Sturgill Simpson, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III in the American Masters film ...
The Ol' Dirt Dauber; Oldsmobile Program; On The 8:15 [10] On Broadway [11] One Man's Family; The Original Amateur Hour; The Orson Welles Almanac; The Orson Welles Show; Our Gal Sunday; Our Miss Brooks; Ozark Jubilee; Ozzie and Harriet
He has also played bass for Brighton, Altar Boys, [5] Flesh Vehicle (founded by Tom Pappas of Superdrag), JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, The Dixiecrats (alongside Shack Shaker J.D. Wilkes and members of Los Straitjackets), The Eskimo Brothers, Derek Hoke, and his newest band Prayer Flags, in which he is the frontman.
The band has toured or performed with acts such as The Dead South, Blues Traveler, [12] Reverend Horton Heat, Pokey LaFarge, [13] Legendary Shack Shakers, [14] Possessed by Paul James, JD Wilkes & the Dirt Daubers, T Model Ford, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Scott H. Biram, Split Lip Rayfield, Left Lane Cruiser, [15] Black Diamond Heavies, Larry and His Flask, Unknown Hinson, and many ...
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In 1994, while still working in local TV, he began playing guitar with the blues band, 61 South, based in Paducah, Kentucky, which featured, among others, Col. J.D. Wilkes, of Th' Legendary Shack Shakers and The Dirt Daubers.
McCoy died of heart disease in Chicago in 1950, at the age of 44, only a few months before Charlie died. They are both buried in Restvale Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois.. Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant took a recording of "When the Levee Breaks," by McCoy and Memphis Minnie, which was in his personal collection, to guitarist Jimmy Page, who revamped the music, and the band recorded it, with ...