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    A jug band is a band employing a jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments. These homemade instruments are ordinary objects adapted...
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  • 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...
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  • Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is a 1977 television special directed by Jim Henson, based on the 1971 children's book of the same name by Russell Hoban...
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    Gus Cannon (redirect from Cannon's Jug Band)
    was an American blues musician who helped to popularize jug bands (such as his own Cannon's Jug Stompers) in the 1920s and 1930s. There is uncertainty...
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  • banjo). The band had its first hit single in 1967 with "Buy for Me the Rain" on Liberty Records. Their earliest work featured jug band and traditional...
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    Maria Muldaur (category Even Dozen Jug Band members)
    and Stefan Grossman as a member of the Even Dozen Jug Band. She then joined Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band as a featured vocalist and occasional fiddle player...
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    in various Bay Area ensembles, including the traditional jug band Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. Lesh was the last member to join the Warlocks...
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    Bartmann jug Bridge spouted vessel Carboy Creamer (vessel) Face jug Fuddling cup Growler (jug) Jug wine Jugging Harvest jug Puzzle jug Toby Jug Silver claret...
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    characteristic sound of the jug is low and hoarse, below the higher pitch of the fiddle, harmonica, and the other instruments in the band. With an embouchure...
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  • A spasm band is a musical group that plays a variety of Dixieland, trad jazz, jug band, or skiffle music. The term "spasm" applied to any band (often made...
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    bass was used in jug bands that were popular in some African American communities in the early 1900s. In the 1950s, British skiffle bands used a variant...
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  • Skiffle (redirect from Skiffle band)
    developed from New Orleans jazz, but this claim has been disputed. Improvised jug bands playing blues and jazz were common across the American South in the early...
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    Kweskin jug band, also known as Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Bob Siggins and Bruno Wolfe. The Jug Band was a significant...
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  • Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions is an American folk music album. It was recorded live by the band of the same name at the Top of the Tangent coffee...
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    their earliest influences from jug band and blues music, reworking them into a popular music format. In 1965, the band helped pioneer the development...
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  • The Even Dozen Jug Band was founded in 1963 by Stefan Grossman (solo country blues and ragtime guitarist) and Peter Siegel (roots-based guitarist and producer)...
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  • Jugband Blues (redirect from Jug Band Blues)
    "Jugband Blues" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, in 1968. Written by Syd Barrett, it...
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  • Jug Band Hokum is a 2015 feature-length documentary film by Jack Norton that stars Brooklynd Turner and Anne Baggenstoss. It follows the eccentric lives...
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    as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used in jazz, zydeco, skiffle, jug band, and old-time music, the washboard remained in its wooden frame and is...
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  • Down. Gus Cannon, born in Red Banks, helped popularize jug bands in the 1920-1930s with his "Jug Stompers". The Delta blues is often regarded as the most...
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  • San Francisco Sound. Exhibiting more pronounced jug band, country and blues influences than many bands from the same scene, the Charlatans' rebellious...
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    where Kermit meets Fozzie Bear. He was also the lyricist for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. Williams was hired by TV producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony...
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  • record label that specializes in remastering and reissuing jazz, blues, and jug band music. Since 2004 the company has been owned by record producer Paul Swinton...
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    Mungo Jerry (category Jug bands)
    asked to perform another after the bands had finished, playing a selection of American folk/blues/skiffle/jug band music from Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie...
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  • The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, also known as Soapbox Circus or Matchbox, were an Australian jug band formed in 1969. It centred on Mic Conway ("Captain...
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    featuring the Disney-owned Muppet characters, including Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas; The Christmas Toy; Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting; Henson's...
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  • Stealin'") is an American blues song from the 1920s. It originated with jug bands, but gained wider popularity after several 1960s contemporary folk musicians...
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  • 1981: Contender (Rounder) 1984: Customized (Boulevard) 1982: Nashville Jug Band (Rounder) 2014: "When the Deal Comes Down" 1985: Mike Cross – Solo at Midnight...
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    of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days. Having established a reputation with the Kweskin Jug Band during the 1960s,...
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