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Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Greatest Hits | Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band | A Good and Plentiful Selection

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	Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Greatest Hits Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band Vanguard Records, 1991 average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

When Jug was King (or Queen)

In the 1960's folk revival many musicans delved back into time to find some aspect of roots music in order to gain a reputation. The members of this band came up with jug music, especailly highlighting old-time Memphis Jug Band tunes and original compositions. However, they bring their own style and musicanship to the effort.

Not all folk music has to have a deep message. This band proves you can have fun, be witty and pay tribute to a great musical tradition at the same time. For those who have never heard jug music you will be surprised what a washtub, stringed broom, etc. can produced musically. Of course it never hurts to have original talent like Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur and the great voice of Maria to back it up. Enough said.

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A Good and Plentiful Selection

I listened to Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band back in the late 60's and find that it's just as great today. I regret that "KC Moan" isn't in here, but Maria D'Amato (Muldaur - wha' happen?) singing "I'm A Woman" is almost worth the price of the whole CD (which, by the by has 22 selections). "Ukelele Lady" is in here too.

recovering the past

Had gone for decades without hearing this seminal album. The JKJB included
Maria Muldar, Geoff Muldar, and of course Kweskin. Their work is notable for energy, joy, and humor. My personal favorites are Never Swat A Fly, Wild About My Loving, and Blues in the Bottle, with a nod to Ukelele Lady!
What a pleasure to have this again.

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Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band Greatest Hits

An EXCELLENT CD and a must for any fan of this type of music.

A Happy Little Album

To call this a "Greatest Hits" compilation is stretching the definition of "hit" just a bit, especially given that The Jim Kweskin Jug Band never had what could even be remotely called a "hit single" in North America. So too is declaring them to be "better than The Beatles" as one reviewer so boldly states.

But they were very good at what they did. Which was to take a kazoo and a tambourine (Maria D'Amato, who also did vocals), a clarinet, washboard and guitar (Geoff Muldaur - also a vocalist), a "white lightnin' jug" and washtub bass (Fritz Richmond), a banjo and steel guitar (Bill Keith), and a guitar (Jim Kweskin - also a vocalist) and turn it into a virtual jug band revival in 1963.

The band would stay in business for close to six years, taking on fiddler Richard Greene and harmonica player Mel Lyman along the way, and wherever they appeared they were well received. In the midst of their career The Lovin' Spoonful would add some of the tunes the band had introduced to their repertoire as well.

When Lyman left to form "The Family" - a no-nonsense religious sect - Kweskin went with him, whereas the husband and wife team of Maria and Geoff Muldaur went on to perform as a duo before splitting up. Maria, of course, would have several hits in the Seventies, the most notable of which were Midnight At The Oasis (# 6 in 1974) and I'm A Woman (# 12 in 1975).

Ignore the "greatest hits" notation and just enjoy some of the greatest light sides of the sometimes morose Folk Music genre.

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Tracks
Jug Band Music - Jim Kweskin, Memphis Jug Band | Beedle Um Bum - Jim Kweskin, | Hawaii - Jim Kweskin, | Somebody Stole My Gal - Jim Kweskin, Wood, Leo | That's When I'll Come Back to You - Jim Kweskin, Biggs, F. | Mobile Line - Jim Kweskin, Sebastian, John [Lo | Never Swat a Fly - Jim Kweskin, Brown, Lew | Rag Mama - Jim Kweskin, Fuller, Blind Boy | Richland Woman - Jim Kweskin, Hurt, Mississippi J | My Gal - Jim Kweskin, Boone | Overseas Stomp - Jim Kweskin, | Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me - Jim Kweskin, McCarron, Charles R | Borneo - Jim Kweskin, Donaldson, Walter | Ukelele Lady - Jim Kweskin, Kahn, Gus | Memphis - Jim Kweskin, Berry, Chuck | Crazy Wods, Crazy Tune - Jim Kweskin, Yellen-Ager | I'm a Woman - Jim Kweskin, Leiber, Jerry | The Story Book Ball - Jim Kweskin, Montgomery | Downtown Blues - Jim Kweskin, Sane, Dan | Morning Blues - Jim Kweskin, Macon, Uncle Dave | Wild About My Loving - Jim Kweskin, | I'm Satisfied With My Gal - Jim Kweskin, DeRose, P. | Chevrolet - Jim Kweskin, Gibbons, Billy | Blues in the Bottle - Jim Kweskin, Stampfel, Peter

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