Hey Chris:

Can you post the chords for Storybook? I would agree that the Juggernauts are a good band, but last time I saw them they had gone too electric for my tastes. Losing their fiddle player has changed their music some. In my opinion the best jug bands playing right now are Paul Moore and His Washboard Wizards, Mic Conway's Junk Band, or the Gutbucket Jug Band. However, they are all outside the U.S.

There is an unfortuneate trend in the U.S. to equate jug band music/playing with sloppiness and just lousy musicianship (the Juggernauts are the exception to this). I don't see why otherwise good musicians will put out under "jug band music" stuff that they would never allow to be released or performed in public for any other genre. As a case in point go here: http://www.humpnightthumpers.com/assembled/home.html

Gut

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Subject: RE: Jug Band and Skiffle Song Lyrics and Chords From:
GutBucketeer - PM Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:22 PM

I want to apologize regarding my comment on the Hump Night Thumpers out of Chicago. Arlo Leech is doing a fantastic job of promoting jug band music in the Chicago Area and increasing the number of those interested in playing it. I didn't realize at the time that the performance band was derived from the class that he teaches at the Old Towne School of Folk Music there and is made up of mostly beginning musicians.

Keep it up Arlo!

Gutbucketeer Jim Bunch