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...sponsoring a folk concert tonight at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium featuring John Hammond Jr., Gram Parsons '69, Geoff Muldaur, Mitch Greenhill, Fritz Richmond, and the Jim Kweskin Trio. Tickets may be purchased at the door...
...beautiful thing to be a comb player. The sound of McKenzie's melodic bzzz drifted off in the '30s, but his name is now revered in Cambridge, Mass., where Harvard students crowd into the Club 47 to hear the music of McKenzie's spiritual heirs: Jim Kweskin and His Jug Band. On washtub, kazoo, stovepipe, scrub board and comb, Kweskin's band plays old-fashioned "good time" music that folk faddists have pronounced the most culturally significant phenomenon since Joan Baez...
...music got started as "spasm" jazz bands played by Negroes who lacked the price of honest-to-God instruments, and now, after 30 years' obscurity, it has returned as a rebellion against the formality of Bluegrass-which itself was exhumed only two or three years ago. Both Kweskin's band and New York's Even Dozen Jug Band have highly successful LPs on the market, and the demand for kazoos in Greenwich Village, where Kweskin's group played at the Bitter End, is as great as it is in Boston. Kweskin, a 23-year-old combist...
...Kweskin and his men are the kind who worry about macrobiotic food and the yin and yang principle, and they talk about their instruments with great seriousness. "It's very important that you use a 10? comb," Kweskin says. "The expensive ones are too thick to vibrate well. A lifetime supply of wax paper costs 29?." Geoff Muldaur, 20, plays mandolin, guitar, kazoo and, most rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give...
Barbara Dane is one of the many important folk singers whose music bears the stamp of an encounter with Rolf Cahn. Jackie Washington, Debbie Green, Odetta, Jim Kweskin, Tom Rush, Molly Scott and countless others both famous and obscure have also been influenced directly by Cahn and his music...