Archive for March 16th, 2007

The Christmas Jug Band - Santa Lost A Ho

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Around 1890, rural southern musicians started playing songs on homemade instruments, starting a craze called “jug music,” which is a mixture of blues, ragtime, and Appalachian music. Jug bands are usually made up of a jug player who blows in to empty liquor jugs (”the poor man’s tuba”), and a mixture of traditional and […]

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