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Article: New Roanoke Jug Band: Play it for a Long Time.(Sound Recording Review) (sound recording review)
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- Sing Out!
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- June 22, 2003
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Copper Creek 2003
The New Roanoke Jug Band takes its name, inspiration and musical cues from the original Roanoke Jug Band, an old-timey, six-man group that hailed from the rural southwestern Virginia city. Active from 1926-1933, they performed at various barn dances, fiddle contests and country suppers, as well as over the radio. They even managed to record a four-song session in 1929 which is included as bonus tracks on this unpretentious release.
Flash forward to the spring of 2000 when Scott Baldwin happened to attend a weekly string band jam session that fiddler and vocalist Jay Griffin had started in a Roanoke club in the late 1990s. Falling in ...