History of Jugband Documentary

Subject: History of Jugband Documentary
From: John Hardly
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 07:53 AM

Just picked this up on another forum. Looks interesting as well as entertaining.

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 09:04 AM

Wow!!!! It looks great, John!!! Now I've got to find out if is out on DVD, or ever shows anywhere. That music is very important to me.

Jerry

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: Mark H.
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 09:53 AM

Fantastic! Well done, that man. There are homes in this sorry world where jug band music is never heard. Glad someone's made a film to spread the word. "You know it sounds so sweet..."

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: MissouriMud
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 12:38 PM

I dont know where you can see a video of this show but, on a somewhat related note, a cd by the same title - Chasin' Gus' Ghost - was put out by John Sebastian and the J Band back in 1999. It has some good numbers on it including "Jug Band Music" which seems to be a different tune from the one the Spoonfull did back in the 60's with that memorable line - "The doctor said give him jug band music, it seems to make him feel just fine". And I thought Gus was just a banjo player ...

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 12:45 PM

The yahoo jugband forum messages state that The opening show for the documentary will be This next weekend (August 25-27) at the San Francisco Jug Band Festival. Jim Kweskin, John Sebastian and others are supposed to be in attendance.

JAB

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 12:53 PM

Ooops - Its the West Coast Premier of Chasin' Gus Ghost on Saturday August 25th.

Check out www.jugfest.org for more details.

JAB

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 04:43 PM

Brilliant. Can't wait to see it all.As the man said, I'm considering a move to Memphis.

Subject: RE: History of Jugband Documentary
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 10:34 PM

Hope this comes to the Los Angeles area. Have a couple of Kweskin albums I haven't listened to in years. Think I'll look them up this weekend.
Thanks for the heads up.