Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (album)

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Live album by
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
Released1999
RecordedJuly 1964
GenreFolk
Length49:05
LabelGrateful Dead Records
ProducerMichael Wanger
Jerry Garcia chronology
Side Trips, Volume One
(1998)
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
(1999)
The Pizza Tapes
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
The Music Box [2]

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions is an American folk music album. It was recorded live by the band of the same name at the Top of the Tangent coffee house in Palo Alto, California in July, 1964, and released in 1999.

The band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was a precursor of the rock group the Grateful Dead, and included three future members of that band – Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.

  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions at AllMusic
  2. ^ Metzter, John (May 1999). Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, The Music Box