But if you want to know, I was down at the local juke joint.

After these are gone, children aren't going to have any idea what a juke joint was.

"This is four singers in a juke joint having a good time."

Juke joints may represent the first "private space" for blacks.

Over time, these places became known as juke joints.

But juke joints are more than places of entertainment.

In fact, we want to open up our own juke joint in Memphis.

Some guys with deputy badges saw us pull out of the juke joint.

Traditional juke joints, however, are under some pressure from other forms of entertainment, including casinos.

Soon played in juke joints in the whole delta area.

He was soon on stage at local juke joints, fronting a band and playing four hours a night.

Now he was hoping to recreate a juke joint in digital form.

"We kind of made this mythological juke joint, and everybody came.

He'll put in a phone call to another juke joint, ten miles up the line, where Griff is waiting for it.

In an 80-year career, he played at juke joints, nightclubs and festivals.

"The juke joint was the only place that black people could go for food and music and dancing," he said.

You know that black juke joint by the Olivia Bridge?

A dozen restaurants and juke joints were jammed together off the intersection.

But today, juke joints, once too numerous to count, have slipped away as their owners pass on.

He would listen to Patton play nightly from outside a nearby juke joint.

Smith played at parties, juke joints, and fish fries.

His public performances were limited to stints at parties and local juke joints.

At juke joints, he says, the audiences were working-class folks "just there to have a good time."

In isolated rural areas a juke joint is often an important social center for the black community, the secular equivalent of the church.

But at that time, his usual performing situation was still a country house with a party going on, or an unruly juke joint.

Five minutes, later, police were in charge of the jook joint, with half a dozen prisoners in their control.

But the quiet of the room had made them forget that it was located in the rear of a jook joint.

He showed the police a way in through the cellar, which was remarkable, considering that very few jook joints had cellars.

The people that like to gamble are going back to the jook joints, and small-time dumps are opening all over town.

Near another jook joint on the outskirts, police were flagged by a little wizened man who didn't give his name, which happened to be Hawkeye.

Meanwhile, a stolid chisel-faced man stepped from a table in the jook joint and followed the masked pair into the rear room.

Jook Joint have also been broadcast on BBC radio.

The jook joints actually seemed to quiver, like houses in an animated cartoon ejecting their quotas of trouble-makers.

At three fancy clubs, not normally classed as jook joints, crooks had tried to rob patrons of cash and jewels.

Jazz dance was "practiced among blacks in social settings like house parties, dives, honky tonks, and jook joints".

We weren't sorry when you opened, because we wanted to keep winter visitors away from the jook joints out in the sticks, where sharpshooters were spotting them.

The young bluesman was poisoned with strychnine-laced whiskey by a jealous husband at a jook joint, and days later he died on the night of August 16, 1938.

She haunted "jook joints," or bawdy houses, and with Guggenheim fellowships went on lone expeditions to Haiti studying voodoo.

Records and collaborated with veteran producer Quincy Jones on his album Q's Jook Joint (1995).

"Jook Joint," which celebrates this producer's 50th anniversary in music, features a mixed and matched all-star cast of rappers, rockers, jazz and soul singers.

And now Mr. Jones is trying to leverage his position into a new-media empire, built upon projects like "Q's Jook Joint."

He knew that "jook joints" were the Florida equivalent of Northern roadhouse: dives located outside the city limits, hence beyond the reach of the metropolitan police.

The jook joints of the road gangs and lumber camps set the stage for Robert, and bluesman Ike Zinnerman became his coach and mentor.

We never got to a jook joint or picnic, having only four days to get from Memphis to New Orleans, a distance of about 450 miles (including our meanderings).

She currently lives in Union City, California, in a house which incorporates her home studio for editing EC's Jook Joint.

Recorded as a tribute to Jones, and featuring re-interpretations of songs associated with him, it is Jones' first original album since 1995's Q's Jook Joint.

Q's Jook Joint won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in 1997.

He is also planning a chain of nightclub-restaurants inspired by his album "Q's Jook Joint," with the first slated to open in Las Vegas in 2009.

While performing at the Jook Joint Shug hears the song "Gods Trying To Tell You Something" coming from her fathers church across the river.

Her performance reportedly impressed all in attendance, including veteran producer Quincy Jones, who later offered her the chance to appear on his album Q's Jook Joint (1995).