FIVE LEADING U.S. JUG BANDS: Jug Band Music? You CAN'T Be Serious!

Five Leading U.S. Jug Bands

Jug Band Music? You CAN'T Be Serious!

© 2007 National Jug Band Jubilee, Inc.

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Jug band music mixes traditional string instruments and harps with jugs, washboards, kazoos, washtub base and other homemade instruments to create a delightful toe-tapping novelty sound for blues, jazz and other popular genre.

tracks

1 San Francisco Bay Blues
2 Jug Band Blues
3 Everybody Loves My Baby
4 Rickett's Hornpipe
5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find
6 Somethin' Elemental
7 Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
8 I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
9 Little Sadie
10 Kokomo Blues
11 Sourwood Mountain
12 Sheik of Araby
13 When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukulele
14 Masculine Women, Feminine Men
15 Two-Timin' Loser
16 Under the Chicken Tree
17 Boodle-Am-Shake
18 Tribute to Earl McDonald
19 Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
20 Pigeon Song
21 Walk Right In
22 Sunny Disposish
23 Sheik of Araby
24 Eggplant that Ate Chicago
25 Talkin' 'bout You
26 Foldin' Bed (Tear It Down)
27 Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind
28 Good Time Music
29 Digga Digga Do
30 Sing It
31 Diggin' My Potatoes
32 Doctor Jazz
33 Plastic
34 One-Hour Mama
35 Jug Band Music
36 My Gal
37 Th Th That's All, Folks!

notes

Jug band music is a fast-paced and funny American original now popular around the world, particularly in Japan. Many believe this century-old music style was originated by African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, where the National Jug Band Jubilee is now staged.
Each of the five bands that collaborated on the Jubilee and this two-CD album plays in its own unique and quickly distinguishable style, but all are loyal to the jug band tradition of jug blowing and related novelty and homemade instruments to create a sound different from all other forms of music.
They are the Juggernaut Jug Band, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cincinnati Dancing Pigs, Dirdy Birdies Jug Band and Washboard Slim & the Blue Lights.
Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops is co-author of "Two-Timin' Loser" which was recorded for the first time in this album. She is an opera-educated soprano skilled at playing banjo, fiddle, kazoo--and sometimes jug.
Fun is the ultimate objective of jug band music. It reduces stress. If you are not happy and grinning after listening to this album, see your shrink! In that spirit, if you STILL aren't happy, return the unused portion of the album and National Jug Band Jubilee will return the unused portion of your money. Oops! It's already been used.

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  • FUN
    author: Frank Worpenberg

    If you are looking for music to make you smile, this is what you need. 5 different jug bands, each with its own style. I enjoyed every minute of this one. Just remember that when listening to jug band music, the drunker you get the better they sound! (I stole that one from Eric of the Cincinnati Dancing Pigs.)

  • Great representation of jug band music's breadth and depth.
    author: Wayne Hagen, International Jug Band Festival organizer

    What a wonderful CD album! Sounds great, well-recorded and catches the fun of the festival. Not only is each band experienced and talented but they are distinctly different from each other. The album is a great representation of the breadth and depth of jug band music. Thanks for the Jubilee and this recording of the event.

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