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Jim Kweskin (born July 18, 1940, Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. According to 2007 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 118,475, making it the fourth largest city in the state....
) is the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Jug band

File:Cannon'sJugStompers.jpgFile:DSCN2249.JPGA jug band is a musical band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments....
, with Fritz Richmond
Fritz Richmond

Fritz Richmond was an United States musician and recording engineer. Fritz Richmond was considered the foremost Washtub bass in the world, and was also the most successful professional Jug player....
, Mel Lyman
Mel Lyman

Mel Lyman was an American cult leader and musician....
, and Geoff
Geoff Muldaur

Geoff Muldaur is a founding member of the Jim Kweskin of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, as well as an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
 and Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
. They were active in Boston in the 1960s.

Kweskin released six album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s and two greatest hits
Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new son...
 compilations on Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 in music by brothers Maynard Solomon and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical music label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary label....
 between 1963-1970; Jim Kweskin's America on Reprise Records
Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an United States record label, founded in 1960 in music by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros....
 in 1971; and four albums on Mountain Railroad Records between 1978-87.








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Jim Kweskin (born July 18, 1940, Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States. According to 2007 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 118,475, making it the fourth largest city in the state....
) is the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Jug band

File:Cannon'sJugStompers.jpgFile:DSCN2249.JPGA jug band is a musical band employing a jug player and a mix of traditional and home-made instruments....
, with Fritz Richmond
Fritz Richmond

Fritz Richmond was an United States musician and recording engineer. Fritz Richmond was considered the foremost Washtub bass in the world, and was also the most successful professional Jug player....
, Mel Lyman
Mel Lyman

Mel Lyman was an American cult leader and musician....
, and Geoff
Geoff Muldaur

Geoff Muldaur is a founding member of the Jim Kweskin of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, as well as an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
 and Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
. They were active in Boston in the 1960s.

Kweskin released six album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s and two greatest hits
Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. To increase the appeal of the album – especially to people who already own the previously released material – it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs or new material, with new son...
 compilations on Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 in music by brothers Maynard Solomon and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical music label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary label....
 between 1963-1970; Jim Kweskin's America on Reprise Records
Reprise Records

Reprise Records is an United States record label, founded in 1960 in music by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros....
 in 1971; and four albums on Mountain Railroad Records between 1978-87.

For further reading

  • Eric Von Schmidt and Jim Rooney, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years, 1979 (out of print)


Jim Kweskin Jug Band members

  • Jim Kweskin - guitar, vocals
  • Mel Lyman
    Mel Lyman

    Mel Lyman was an American cult leader and musician....
     - harmonica, banjo
  • Bill Keith - Banjo, pedal steel guitar
  • Fritz Richmond
    Fritz Richmond

    Fritz Richmond was an United States musician and recording engineer. Fritz Richmond was considered the foremost Washtub bass in the world, and was also the most successful professional Jug player....
     - jug, washtub bass
  • Richard Greene
    Richard Greene (fiddle player)

    Richard Greene is a violinist and "one of the most innovative and influential fiddle players of all time"....
     - fiddle
  • Maria Muldaur
    Maria Muldaur

    Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
     - vocals, percussion
  • Geoff Muldaur
    Geoff Muldaur

    Geoff Muldaur is a founding member of the Jim Kweskin of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, a member of Paul Butterfield's Better Days, as well as an accomplished solo guitarist, singer, and songwriter....
     - guitar, vocals


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