Jim Kweskin
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Jim Kweskin
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- “Once I Develop Too Outdated to Dream”
- “Viper Mad”
- “Ladybugs’ Picnic”
- “Jug Band Music”
Few folks have performed extra to advance and have fun folks music than Jim Kweskin.
At 84, he is been enjoying folks, jug music and Americana for over 70 years. He began the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which performed the Newport Folks Competition a number of instances and have become an enormous affect on the people revival of the ’60s within the course of. Kweskin’s band rubbed off on a number of upstarts of the time, together with Grateful Useless and The Lovin’ Spoonful.
On this session, Kweskin joins us to speak about his new album, Doing Issues Proper, with the Berlin Corridor Saturday Night time Revue. We’ll get a primer on the artwork of skiffling, a musical custom involving studying songs to carry out in a mixture of jazz, blues and folks.
Plus, Kweskin tells us about considered one of his most well-known recordings, “Ladybugs’ Picnic,” which we would all depend alongside to on Sesame Road.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
