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Jug band music is a genre of folk and blues that uses jugs, washboards, spoons, and other homemade instruments. Learn about the origins, styles, and revival of jug band music from Louisville, Memphis, and other regions.
Elliot Silberman takes you on a journey through the history, excitement and fun of Jug Band Music.
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Jug band music is American folk music characterized by use of a whiskey jug, kazoo, and washboard among other instruments. The musical style is most often bl...
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Jul 22, 2015 · "Jug Band Music" Portion of an amazing set of Jim Kweskin's Jug Band 50th Reunion that took place at the 2013 Rhythm and Roots Festival which in its entirety included musicians: Jim...
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- Some Original Jug Bands
- Whistler’s Jug Band – Foldin’ Bed – Example
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The first jug bands to record were the Louisville and Birmingham jug bands. They used the jug for its novelty. They played popular dance band jazz tunes. America’s blue yodeler Jimmie Rodgers and Vaudeville-blues singer Sara Martin both used these groups on recordings.
Will Shade’s Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers recorded ‘Stealin”, ‘Jug Band Music’, ‘On the Road Again’, ‘Whoa, Mule’, ‘Minglewood Blues’, ‘Walk Right In’, and many others. These were more in a Memphis blues style. Other Memphis area bands included Jack Kelly and His South Memphis Jug Band, Jed Davenport’s Beale Street Jug Band, and t...
The Depression and radio had a devastating impact on record sales, drastically reducing the output of jug band music. The last recordings by Cannon and The Memphis Jug Band were from 1930 and 1934. Will Shade and Cannon were recorded later in 1956 by Sam Charters for Folkways Records. The use of the washboard and tub bass with its distinctive sound...
In 1958, one of the first recordings of the folk era jug band revival was by The Orange Blossom Jug Five for the Lyrichord label ‘Skiffle in Stereo’. It was also the first recording by New York folksinger Dave Van Ronk, and featured Sam Charters, author of ‘The Country Blues’,and his wife Ann as well as Len Kunstadt, co-owner of the Spivey Records ...
Jug band is a musical style that uses homemade instruments like jugs, washboards, and gourds. Learn about the origins, influences, and artists of jug band music in America, from Memphis blues to skiffle.
The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group active from the mid-1920s to the late-1950s. [1] The band featured harmonica, kazoo, fiddle and mandolin or banjolin, backed by guitar, piano, washboard, washtub bass and jug. They played slow blues, pop songs, humorous songs and upbeat dance numbers with jazz and string band flavors.
The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group active from the mid-1920s to the late-1950s. The band featured harmonica, kazoo, fiddle and mandolin or banjolin, backed by guitar, piano,...
