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What (who) is jug band - definition


Jug band         
  • [[Cannon's Jug Stompers]]
  • The jug band 5-Cent Coffee performing at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival
BAND EMPLOYING A JUG PLAYER
Jug bands; Jugband; Jook band
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 to or modified for making sound, like the washtub bass, washboard, spoons, bones, stovepipe, jew's harp, and comb and tissue paper.
jug band         
  • [[Cannon's Jug Stompers]]
  • The jug band 5-Cent Coffee performing at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival
BAND EMPLOYING A JUG PLAYER
Jug bands; Jugband; Jook band
¦ noun a group of jazz, blues, or folk musicians using simple or improvised instruments such as jugs and washboards.
Even Dozen Jug Band         
AMERICAN FOLK ROCK BAND
The Even Dozen Jug Band
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) in New York City, New York. Other members were David Grisman (a noted mandolinist), Steve Katz (later with Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears), Maria Muldaur (then Maria D'Amato), Joshua Rifkin (arranger of Scott Joplin ragtime compositions,), and John Sebastian (later with the Lovin' Spoonful).
Examples of use of jug band
1. Wildly original, often leaping off in several directions at once, veering at will from a kind of beach–party jug band to a warped version of the soft rock of the Mamas and the Papas or the Fifth Dimension, they make you want to go straight out and buy everything this amazing group ever recorded.