Jug band
A youth band is a musical group with a youth player . The jug is a clay jug (or another vessel) that is blown on and in this way creates bass- like tones. The other instruments of a youth band are partly common band instruments such as guitar , mandolin , fiddle , banjo and harmonica , but also other, more unusual and partly self-made instruments such as the barrel bass , the washboard and the kazoo . Often the guitars and banjos were put together from parts. The jug bands were the model of skiffle music, which became popular in Europe , especially in England , in the 1950s .
The first jug bands emerged in the US at the beginning of the 20th century, when unemployed Afro-American vaudeville musicians earned a few cents on street corners. They played energetic popular music that contributed to the evolution of the blues and the emergence of rock 'n' roll . In the 1930s, with the advent of swing , jug bands went out of style.
The most famous jug bands were Gus Cannons Jug Stompers , whose song Walk Right In was a hit in the late 1920s and experienced a revival in the 1960s with the Rooftop Singers , the Dixieland Jug Blowers and, above all, the Memphis Jug Band . Later successful jug bands were the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Even Dozen Jug Band with Maria Muldaur and Joshua Rifkin.
Modern rock bands sometimes play jug band music too, such as Willie And The Poor Boys from Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jug Band Music from The Lovin 'Spoonful . Their head John Sebastian also founded the J-Band , in which, in addition to younger musicians, Yank Rachell , a veteran Jug-Band, also played. In addition, the youth was a defining element of the psychedelic band 13th Floor Elevators .
There are still original jug bands today. A JugFest is held annually in October in Sutter Creek , California .