jug band
noun
: a band that uses primitive or improvised instruments (such as jugs, washboards, and kazoos) to play blues, jazz, and folk music
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Rising out a number of different Bay Area groups — most notably, traditional jug band Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions — the Grateful Dead formed in 1965 in Palo Alto.
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Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
In a 1972 issue of Rolling Stone, Garcia credited McKernan with his shift from acoustic jug band to electric guitar, which prompted the formation of the Warlocks, the band that became the Grateful Dead.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Skiffle, which originated in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1900s, blended folk, blues, gospel, jazz, country and jug band music.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
Other autumn happenings: jug band music, a hoedown and ghost stories.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
At Southside Preservation Hall on Saturday, about a dozen Black musicians will perform songs from traditional genres such as old-time, string band, jug band, ragtime and early blues and jazz as part of the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival.
—Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2022
Aside from the many multi-day annual music festivals featuring famous artists, there are smaller events like the National Jug Band Jubilee, which celebrates the jug band style of music pioneered in Louisville in the early 1900s.
—Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2022
Washboard Slim and the Blue Lights have doing their singular jug band/swing jazz/roots/blues/fun thing for four decades.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Mar. 2022
Instead of tracing seminal artist Ma Rainey's (Viola Davis) career, the Netflix film walks us through a day in her life, which mostly consists of a recording session with her jug band and exploitative white producer.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 18 Dec. 2020
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Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
In a 1972 issue of Rolling Stone, Garcia credited McKernan with his shift from acoustic jug band to electric guitar, which prompted the formation of the Warlocks, the band that became the Grateful Dead.
—Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
Skiffle, which originated in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 1900s, blended folk, blues, gospel, jazz, country and jug band music.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
Other autumn happenings: jug band music, a hoedown and ghost stories.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
At Southside Preservation Hall on Saturday, about a dozen Black musicians will perform songs from traditional genres such as old-time, string band, jug band, ragtime and early blues and jazz as part of the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival.
—Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2022
Aside from the many multi-day annual music festivals featuring famous artists, there are smaller events like the National Jug Band Jubilee, which celebrates the jug band style of music pioneered in Louisville in the early 1900s.
—Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2022
Washboard Slim and the Blue Lights have doing their singular jug band/swing jazz/roots/blues/fun thing for four decades.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 Mar. 2022
Instead of tracing seminal artist Ma Rainey's (Viola Davis) career, the Netflix film walks us through a day in her life, which mostly consists of a recording session with her jug band and exploitative white producer.
—Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 18 Dec. 2020
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“Jug band.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jug%20band. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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