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Thursday, November 30, 2017

UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC: JIM KWESKIN AND THE JUG BAND

A popular group at Jim Rooney's Club 47 in Harvard Square (in the days when men were men , music was music, and Maria Muldaur wore really short skirts) was Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band.  Kweskin was joined by Fritz Richmond (who actually turned a quonset hut into a musical instrument when he was in the army), Geoff Muldaur, Muldaur's wife Maria (yes, those skirts were really that short), Mel Lyman (a very unhinged man),Bill Keith,  and others who shuffled in and out of the group.  

Good, knee-thumpin' music.

Jug Band Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFqBD-FTPt0

Ukelele Lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94A4lNuaPhk

The Sheik of Araby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUL1ZdXOoE

The Circus Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiT4t0j5yg

Boodle Am Shake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42Zn4dfYoo

Shrisotpher Columbus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlS4YZIKTj8

When I Was a Cowboy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y6S-u42Oco

My Gal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDUFw20ycQ

Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arSIlfNLS8A

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYzI6lRYuag

Rag Mama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFG7ssfeoU

K.C. Moan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-le5F7JUc

Washington at Valley Forge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eCzn1v080

Borneo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w20mtFCNwzo

I'm a Woman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17R9UP-4tpk

Storybook Ball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUEZOpvHRQ



1 comment:

  1. I've only recently become aware of what happened to Kweskin, how he got involved with some odd folks and through that became primarily a real estate mogul. And that Paul Williams, the music/pop culture critic and editor of the complete short stories volumes for Philip Dick and Theodore Sturgeon had a brief affiliation with the same odd group. The things people get up to.

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