Mecum named the group based on the fact that they so often performed the Jelly Roll Morton tune, "Wolverine Blues".

When the Stockton Club closed after a New Year's Eve brawl, the group moved to Cincinnati to play at Doyle's Dance Studio.

As a live act, they were so popular that the owner of Doyle's locked their instruments in his club to keep them from skipping town, but the group eventually sneaked out in order to take a job in Bloomington, Indiana.

After finding out that the Roseland engagement was to be cancelled in November, Beiderbecke left the group to play with Jean Goldkette.

[1] Jimmy McPartland eventually replaced him, and they recorded yet again for Gennett in December,[1] before taking off for a gig in Palm Beach, Florida.