Guitarist Jim Kweskin has been making jug band music for over half a century. He started performing in the 1950s at the famed Club 47 in Boston, and in the 1960s, the Jim Kweskin Band with Geoff and ...

Before smart phones and personal computers, before the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band became the original Americana band, playing everything from classic ...

Few people have done more to advance and celebrate folk music than Jim Kweskin. At 84, he's been playing folk, jug music and Americana for over 70 years. He started the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which ...

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 ...

Jim Kweskin first made his musical mark leading the 1960s jug band that bore his name. Relative newcomer Meredith Axelrod has a deep appreciation for early-20th-century American music and a knack for ...

The Jim Kweskin Jug Band never had a hit record, but they were among the most influential groups of the ’60s. Not just in folk music circles, either. Without the Jug Band, there might never have been ...

This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has been listening to a lot of new music and has selected songs by three very different artists, music from former Alabama Shakes lead singer Brittany Howard, ...