Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen musicians including concert star Joan Baez, the Charles River Valley Boys, and the Jim Keveskin Jug Band had attracted a quiet crowd of some 150 sunbathers when the MDC officers drove up and scattered them. Miss Baez had appeared at the Donnelly Memorial Theatre Saturday night...
Washboard & Jug. When representatives of a New York publisher turned up in Memphis in February to pay Gus for his old song, he was as cagey as he was surprised. ''I want my money," he kept saying, peering out over his dime-store glasses. For publishers' rights to the song, Vanguard Records gave him $500, plus the promise of a one-third cut in royalties if all goes well. Gus was also offered a recording contract to make an album for Atlantic Records' Stax label...
Last week Gus was singing downtown again, this time in a recording studio. In his rich and resonant voice, he sang blues to his own full-chord banjo accompaniment while a friend kept time on the washboard and somebody else played the musical jug. Gus led the group through the old tunes-Long John Booker, The Chicken, Old Blue, and his own Walk Right...
...turned on the TV set to catch the latest Cuba bulletins before breakfast one morning last week, John Ernst Steinbeck had no inkling that he had won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature while he slept. At a press conference a few hours later, ruddy-faced, jug-eared and bearded, John Steinbeck muttered that he "got splintered this morning" and still felt "wrapped and shellacked." Later, with tongue in cheek, he explained that wrapping and shellacking is the standard formula for repairing a cracked goldfish bowl...
...Jug of Corn. Mixing orchestra music, songs, plain talk, sentiment, shenanigans, commercials, and poems that would have embarrassed Edgar Guest. Breakfast Club is the salt of the air. The visiting audience is full of people who listen to McNeill every day without fail, and they feel no restraint about participating. One woman walked up to him during a show recently and hefted a likker pot toward him, drawling: "Ah brought you a small jug of corn from Alabama." "We got our own corn on this show," said...