Jim Kweskin is quick to correct an enduring legend, that The Kweskin Jug Band opened a show for The Doors. “It was a co-billing, I think they went first,” he says. “Janis Joplin and Big Brother and ...

As a key member of the pioneering Jim Kweskin Jug Band in the 1960s, Geoff Muldaur helped inspire New York’s Lovin’ Spoonful and San Francisco’s Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, which soon ...

In turn-of-the-century America, the music you could hear in cities up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was jug band music. It was unconventional, raw and hugely popular. The musicians were ...

The original Jim Kweskin Jug Band had a fun run in the 1960s, before its members went their separate ways. Now guitar-playing singers Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur are making music together again, ...

In the 1960s, Jim Kweskin was famous for finding 78 RPM records of early jazz, blues and country. That collection helped fuel the sound and repertoire of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, his influential ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Geoff Muldaur started performing again with his old jug band colleague Jim Kweskin after a hiatus of some 35 years, he wanted to make sure the music still sounded fresh. "We ...

The Jim Kweskin Jug Band celebrates its 50th anniversary Wednesday night at The Egg, but since the group never had any Billboard hits and ceased to exist as a performing unit in 1969, you may not know ...

You hardly ever hear good old songs like "The Sheik of Araby," "Blues in the Bottle" or "The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me" anymore. And when's the last time you heard a kazoo solo? But with ...

For a group as colorful and influential as it was, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band had a rather dubious start. Maynard Solomon, cofounder of Vanguard Records, had seen Kweskin perform at Club 47 in Cambridge ...

Okay, no one was better than Eric Clapton, but was Jeff Beck, this new guitarist playing for the Yardbirds, anywhere near as good as the Blues Project's Danny Kalb? The question may now seem ludicrous ...