NOUN
- a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments
How To Use jug band In A Sentence
- Says the Richmond composer, I thought it would be great to write a sequel showing how [Porgy] goes up north, and on the way he runs into jazz, rag, barrelhouse, jug band, gospel, all the early black folk music styles. Archive 2006-11-01
- The harmonica is a staple of American blues, beginning with the Memphis jug bands of the 1920s. NPR Topics: News
- They all come down in a rain of clamoring tambourines and bottleneck slide guitars, clawhammer banjo picking, booming jug band blowing and barrelhouse piano rolls. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
- Performing as a Jug band, the instrumentation was primitive as they experimented with tub bass, washboard, and kazoo.
- Ragtime blues was the rootsy style of music played by American jug bands in the 1920s and 30s, and Ragweed take this style and add their own touch of north coast character.
- I'd probably still be buskering for pence had not a large-hearted girl in a small Mary Quant mini taken pity on me and given me a job playing the tambourine in her jug band. Daniel Krotz: The Uses of Poetry
- A jug band is essentially a string band with a wind section - harmonica, kazoos, and the jug, of course.
- In the courtyard was The Ugly Mug Jug Band, a fearsome foursome with a banjo, guitar, washboard, harmonica and jug.
- When I'm gigging, which is 6-12 times a month, I take what seems most appropriate -- be it for a solo thing, a jug band date or a historic music show. Mandolin Cafe News
