Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band: Acoustic Swing & Jug

Artist: Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 015707952125
EAN: 0015707952125
ASIN: B00000AE5Q

Release Date: 1998-09-15

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Tracks:

Jug Band Music
Beedle Um Bum
Somebody Stole My Gal
That's When I'll Come Back To You
I'm A Woman
Never Swat A Fly
Rag Mama
Richland Woman
My Gal
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
Chevrolet
Ukelele Lady
Memphis
Blues In The Bottle
Morning Blues
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Borneo
Downtown Blues
Wild About My Loving
I'm Satisfied With My Gal

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Customer Reviews:

Wish they were still around!.......2004-03-19

Ok..I am a flower child fromthe 60's...But, you have to agree,
they are the greatest...As are Richard and Mimi Farina!
I dont know if the jug band still exists with the original
members..But, if they do, would travel a few miles to see them!

Pure Jugband enjoyment for all ages.......2001-05-07

This an outstanding collection and overview of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band; it recalls the best of the 20's and 30's good-time whoopie music, refreshingly, and with a bit of modernism (Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee" for example,) thrown in for good measure. This CD compiles selections from all three of Kweskin & the Jug Band's 60's Vanguard records, though regretably, it contains *all* the same tunes as "Greatest Hits!" (and "Greatest Hits!" has four *additional* songs on it, and, lamentably, NONE of them are "Coney Island Washboard"). Just as you'll find a lot of influences from the great 1920's Jugbands like "Cannon's Jug Stompers" or "The Memphis Jug Band", you'll find a LOT of Jim Kweskin & The Jugband influence on a number of bands and acts to follow them--off the top of my head--Tiny Tim, The Captain Matchbox Whoopie Band, Leon Redbone, the Fugs, Country Joe & The Fish, Mike Gross, Loke E. Coyote, all show some heavy signs of Kweskin & Jug Band exposure! The Grateful Dead's proto-band, "Mother McCrea's Uptown Jug Champions", for example, [available directly from GDM Inc.] had a repitiore that was largely swiped straight from Kweskin's 1st LP.

This is a very accessible collection, play it at any party and watch the smiles! Kweskin's Jug Band doesn't touch some of the more "difficult" traditional subject material (often a problem in these politically correct times) that some might find overly risque, or racist, but it doesn't miss a thing when it comes to the double-entendre, and you'll hear this in tunes like "Borneo" and "Beedle Um Bum." Frankly, the *only* reason this collection doesn't get five stars, is (as I said) it has essentially the same track list as the CD "Greatest Hits" minus four tracks.

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