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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...