John Sebastian loved Jug Band Music and gave it a blip of revival. Apparently, he also stole from it when he wanted to.
It's a fair bit like this tune, isn't it?
I loved the Spoonful, sang lots of their songs and had a few shirts like that.
The first jug band song I was exposed to, in my freshman year in high school, was Cannons Jug Stompers perform Walk Right In (1929. There was other jug band music on the album (Folkways Country Blues?), but this is the song I remember. Before learning the jug band version, I was,of course, aware of the Rooftop Singers' rendition of Walk Right In. Which is probably why I remembered the jug band version.
ReplyDeleteIn looking at the songs on the Folkways/Smithsonian album- which I haven't heard in over a half century- here were the other two songs I remembered.(Careless Love was a song I already knew, courtesy of Joan Baez.)
ReplyDeleteYou're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond - Blind Willie Johnson
Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' stealin' (1928)