#jug bands

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LECTURE 4: INFLUENCES (PART 1): Typical of so-called “jug bands” in the American South was WHISTLER’S JUG BAND, one of countless such acts that flourished across the region. Most jug bands were very lively, and involved a mix of professional musical instruments (guitars, horns, drums) and amateur ersatz musical instruments. including corrugated washboard scraped with a metal thimble or a bass constructed with a broomstick and a single string attached to a washtub, wooden box, or tea chest.  This genre of music flourished in the 1920s and early 1930s, but was largely eclipsed by the Blues as the 1930s drew to a close.  The British skiffle craze of the 1950s was direct descendant of southern American jug bands.

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1st RECORDING OF: Walk Right In - Cannon’s Jug Stompers (1929)

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There's 53 Days Til Christmas!

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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977)

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“Though our minds be filled with questions, in our hearts we'll understand when the river meets the sea.”

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, 1977.

Dir. Jim Henson | Writ. Jerry Juhl | Prod. Design William Beeton

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have you done your daily click

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Just a fella, strumming away on his lil guitar ✨💖✨

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Muppet Fact #941

Through the end of December 2023, the stage adaptation of Jim Henson's Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas is playing at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago.

Source:

Emmett Otter Live website.

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Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Avalon Ballroom, 1966.

Stanley Mouse Artwork.

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Drew emmet otter with the achahol pens I got for easter

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LECTURE 4: INFLUENCES (PART 1): There were a number of so-called “Jug Bands” in the American South during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. “Jug Bands” were especially popular among poor African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. One of them, the Memphis Jug Band, combined homemade “instruments” such as the jug, the washboard, and the washtub bass, with more conventional instruments, like guitar, piano, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, and so on. Founded in the 1920s in Memphis, Tennessee, the Memphis Jug Band attracted remarkable talent, thanks to its charismatic leader, Will Shade, who specialized in guitar, harmonica, and washtub bass. And Shade was vocalist to boot! The Memphis Jug Band emerged as one of the most prominent American jug bands, largely due to their prolific output and their longevity (they kept jamming well into the 1950s). They recorded a fair number of songs on the Victor, Gennett, and Okeh Records labels. This is one of their most famous songs, “Cocaine Habit Blues,” recorded on May 17, 1930.

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Memphis Jug Band-On The Road Again ... ... ... don’t forget the jug bands whatever you do

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There's 22 Hours Til Christmas!

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Happy 45th Anniversary to Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas!

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Emmet Otter and co