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 ...

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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 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 ...