Luke Faust
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Luke Faust (1936 in New York City –
In the early 1960s he played a five-string banjo player and sang Appalachian ballads, at The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village, New York City. For five or six years Faust performed with Jerry Rasmussen. One of his fellow enterainers at the Gaslight was Bob Dylan who described Faust as ”Someone closer in temperament to me.”
In the early 60s he briefly played the jug performing with the Holy Modal Rounders. He would get on stage with a full gallon of red wine and unscrew the top, take a few chugs and start playing. His tone would get deeper as the gig went on.
In the late 1960s Faust was a founding member of the band The Insect Trust, he was the band's banjo, fiddle and harmonica player.
Faust also played with 90 proof - a band with Steve James.
Luke is currently performing with The Carolina Jug Stompers playing rags, blues and breakdowns in the old-time jug - stringband style. Luke’s contributions to music has been described in Bob Dylan's book Chronicles, and Dave Van Ronk’s The King of Greenwhich Villege.
Discography
With The Insect Trust
- 1969 The Insect Trust
- 1970 Hoboken Saturday Night
With Dave Van Ronk
- 2000 Dealin' With The Devil
Songs of Robert Johnson
With The Carolina Jug Stompers
- 2005 Rooster on a Limb
1. Money Never Runs Out 2. Maybelle Rag 3. Going to Germany 4. Bum Bum Blues 5. New Orleans Wiggle/ Somebody Stole My Gal 6. Gin Done Done It 7. Under the Chicken Tree 8. Lonely One in This Town 9. Cotton Picker’s Rag 10. Central Georgia Blues 11. Rooster on a Limb 12. Please Baby 13. Podunk Toddle 14. K.C. Moan 15. Georgia Pines 16. Busted 17. Carolina Shout/ House Rent Rag
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