Jim Kweskin

Jim Kweskin (born July 18, 1940, Stamford, Connecticut) is the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Bob Siggins and Bruno Wolfe. They were active in Boston in the 1960s. Maria Muldaur, formerly with the Even Dozen Jug Band, joined the band in 1963.

Kweskin released six albums and two greatest hits compilations on Vanguard Records between 1963 and 1970; Jim Kweskin's America on Reprise Records in 1971; and four albums on Mountain Railroad Records between 1978 and 1987.

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, comb
• Mel Lyman – harmonica, banjo
• Bill Keith – Banjo, pedal steel guitar
• Fritz Richmond – jug, washtub bass
• Richard Greene – fiddle
• Maria Muldaur – vocals, percussion, fiddle
• Geoff Muldaur – guitar, vocals, mandolin, washboard, kazoo
• Bruno Wolfe – vocals
• Bob Siggins – vocals, banjo

Discography

Albums

• Jim Kweskin and The Jug Band (1963)
• Jug Band Music (1965)
• Relax Your Mind (1966)
• Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band (1966)
• See Reverse Side For Title (1967)
• Jump for Joy (1967)
• Garden of Joy (1967)
• Best of Jim Kweskin and The Jug Band (1968)
• Whatever Happened to Those Good Old Days (1968)

Singles

• "Minglewood" / "Sheik Of Araby" (1967)
• "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" / "Circus Song"

External links

• The Jim Kweskin Jug band at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival
• Illustrated Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band discography
• Allmusic.com entry