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 ...

Legendary folk singer-guitarist Jim Kweskin is more than a bit of an anomaly. Active at the fertile dawn of the early ‘60s East Coast folk revival movement, Kweskin, who appears Saturday at Altadena’s ...

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 ...

1 Video: First Look at Helen J Shen in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 Trailer Fifty years down the road, the original members of the JKJB have separately kept making music in myriad configurations, but the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Highlights: "Sweet to Mama," "I Ain't Gonna Marry," "Fishin' Blues" The crowd: The theater was only about half full with what Geoff Mulduar described as "old people and their parents." Back during the ...

One spring night in 1963, 23-year-old Jim Kweskin was onstage at Cambridge, Mass.' now-storied Club 47. He was billed as a solo performer, but as was his wont, he was joined by a gaggle of local ...