Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Jim Kweskin & The Jug BandEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-09-16
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Jug Band Music
- Beedle Um Bum
- Hawaii
- Simebody Stole My Gal
- That's When I'll Come Back To You
- Mobile Line
- Never Swat A Fly
- Rag Mama
- Richland Woman
- My Gal
- Overseas Stomp
- Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me
- Borneo
- Ukelele Lady
- Memphis
- Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
- I'm A Woman
- Storybook Ball
- Downtown Blues
- Morning Blues
- Wild About My Loving
- I''m Satisfied With My Gal
- Chevrolet
- Blues In The Bottle
Music reviews of Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - Greatest Hits
Music Review: A Happy Little Album
Rating: 4 Stars
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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