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Article: Jim Kweskin and Co. catch the spirit with jug band.
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- The Boston Herald
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- February 26, 1999
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Jug band legend Jim Kweskin has a new band, yet he has hired neither a booking agent nor a publicist, and there's no immediate plans to record. Tomorrow's gig at Club Passim will be only one of a handful of dates this year for Jim Kweskin & Samoa with the Swinging Tenants.
"Music is not what I do for a living," said Kweskin this week from his commune home in the Fort Hill section of Roxbury. "I'm in the construction business. I mostly play music just for fun, on nights and weekends."
The new band explores the old-time music for which Kweskin is known: vivid versions of pop, country, blues, swing and jug band songs from the 1920s through the '50s, from ...