The Jelly Roll Kings were an electric[1] Delta blues band. The members of the band were: Frank Frost (keyboard/harmonica), Big Jack Johnson (guitar) and Sam Carr (drums). Their most famous songs included "The Jelly Roll King", and "Catfish Blues".[2][3]
The three had been playing together irregularly from 1962 and into the seventies under the name The Nighthawks.[4] 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.[5] 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."[2]
Frank Frost died in 1999, Sam Carr followed in 2009, and Big Jack Johnson in 2011.