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Article: Famous Jug Band: O for Summer. (sound recording review)
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- Sing Out!
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- June 22, 2002
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O For Summer, the third Famous Jug Band album, appears a mere 30 years after the second. It is an unexpected delight. The band includes Incredible String Band founding member Clive Palmer on banjo, Pete Berryman on a variety of instruments, vocalist/autoharpist Jill Johnson-Sharp and jug man Henry Bartlett who passed away last August. Keyboardist Riley James, Stu Porter on harmonica and drummer Keith Marshall also contribute. The set list is 16 songs strong, all originals except one. FJB always had an eclectic sound that doesn't really match the style invoked by their name. This eclecticism remains true 30 years later as they never really touch ...