"". By the time of the band's next recording on September 5, 1928, Cannon had replaced Ashley Thompson with Elijah Avery on banjo and guitar. However, by time of the band's third recording session, four days later, Avery had in turn been replaced with an old friend of Cannon's from the medicine and tent show circuit, the six string banjo player and guitarist, Hosea Woods, with the band's line-up remaining unchanged from then on" This is inaccurate. The best on all this is Sam Charters books and the interview with Ashley Thompson in the Memphis Library. Cannon purposefully ditched Thompson at the next recording session, told him the wrong time to take the train to Memphis and used Elijah Avery, a man Cannon has worked with for 10=-15 years in the medicine shows who played a magnificient chord rhythm on banjo guitar and guitar. Avery was not replaced in that session by Hosea Woods, Woods joined the session at the end playing Kazoo and probably Jug. This was not a band that ever performed anywhere, but a recording group that got together whenever Peer came to Memphis to record. Hosea Woods was Cannon's closest friend, roomate between Cannon's various wives, and was billed as the leader of whatever groups Cannon performed with in the medicine shows. It was a question of who had come back to Memphis when from the medicine Show. Cannon recorded his later work with Hosea Woods, who played guitar, piano, trumpet, fiddle, and banjo mandolin and was referred to as "Prof Woods." The real split was between Cannon, Avery, and Woods who were born in the 1880s and had all worked together in medicine shows for about 15 years, and all lived in Memphis by the time the recordings, and the much younger Lewis and Thompson who did not live in Memphis or work in medicine shows, The uptempo recordings of the first session with the brilliant singing and guiar of Thompson was NOT what Cannon was into. He liked the older ragtime pop songs and his versions of the blues were much slower. He dumped Thompson to work with the older musicians. Blues revivalists focus on the few recordings Cannon made with Thompson and the independent recordings Lewis made in 1930 after the Stompers ceased to be recorded, but Cannon's meat, and you can suggest Avery and Woods (several of the songs like Walk Right in were published as being by Woods or Cannon and Woods) was the older tunes like Walk Right In, or almost minstrely medicine show tunes like Whoa Mule Get up in the Ally, or Prison Wall blues, a pure Woods tune. The real meat of Cannon's was the lingering traces of ragtime in his banjo playing and the way the band worked. It can also be said that to function to play dances he needed more of the bottom Woods and Avery's guitar and guitar banjo provided than Thompsons guitar. It is a shame no one recorded Ashley Thompson and woods separately, Thanks