Jug-Band

A Jug band is a musical group with a jug player. The Jug is a clay jug (may substitute another vessel ), which is blown and thus produces bass -like sounds. The other instruments of a Jug Band are partially usual band instruments such as guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and harmonica, but other, more unusual and partly self-built instruments like the tons of bass, the washboard and kazoo. Often the guitars and banjos were cobbled together from parts. The Jug bands were the model of skiffle music that was in the 1950s in Europe, especially in England, popular.

The first jug bands originated in the U.S. in the early 20th century, when unemployed African-American vaudeville musicians on street corners so that a pair of earned cents. They played an energetic popular music, which contributed to the development of the blues and the emergence of rock ' n ' roll. In the 1930s, jug bands came with the advent of swing out of fashion.

The most famous Jug bands were Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, whose song Walk Right In the late 1920s and was a hit in the 1960s by the Rooftop Singers experienced a revival, and especially the Memphis Jug Band. Later successful Jug bands were the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Even Dozen Jug Band with Maria Muldaur and Joshua Rifkin.

Even modern rock bands play sometimes Jug -band music, such as Willie And The Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jug Band Music by The Lovin ' Spoonful. Their head John Sebastian founded the J- band, in addition to younger musicians Yank Rachell also, a jug band veteran starred. In addition, the Jug was a distinctive element of the psychedelic band 13th Floor Elevators.

There are original jug bands even today. Every year in October in Sutter Creek, California, a JugFest instead.