Everybody knows these days how changes in taste and technology can ravage whole styles of popular music. But the same forces can also give obscure antiques a fresh sheen and unprecedented vitality.

Under the blue sky on Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Jason Russell House Beer Garden in Arlington, the clink of pint glasses met the chatter of loungers in lawn chairs and clatter of washboards and washtub ...

Cleveland's obsession with polka is a nationally circulated factoid. But our city is also home to Todd Kwait, one of the world's most rabid fans of jug-band music. You're probably wondering, "What the ...

Blues songs; recordings of various jug bands, originally issued 1927-30. Program notes by Sam Charters on container; program and biographical notes by Dave Evans ([4 ...

Within an American musical landscape cluttered by synthesized pop songs using auto-tuned vocals, electronic percussion and sophomoric lyrics, it is refreshing to find bands that play from the heart ...

Jim Kweskin grew up in Connecticut, began his music career in Boston and now lives in California, but he knows this region's historic Piedmont blues artists better than most natives. He was inspired ...

In author J.R.R. Tolkein's alternate universe, God created the world through music. If it happened that way in this universe, jug band music might explain laughter and the platypus. With a jug, a ...

Jim Kweskin is quick to correct an enduring legend, that The Kweskin Jug Band opened a show for The Doors. “It was a co-billing, I think they went first,” he says. “Janis Joplin and Big Brother and ...

Who knew that one of the most exciting new Front Range album releases of 2024 was going to feature jug band music and a kazoo chorus? Mad Dog Blues’ eighth album — which contains a myriad of fun ...

At a Dinkytown cafe Saturday, several members of the Geezers Jug Band were living up to their name. “About the only place left from when we were here is Al’s Breakfast,” said University alumnus Peter ...

101 Just Because / Orange Blossom Jug Five, Dave Van Ronk, Samuel Barclay Charters. Jug,Washboard band music. 102 Camille Gaspegeau / Orange Blossom Jug Five, Dave Van Ronk, Samuel Barclay Charters.