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The Federal Cigar Jug Band

 
The Federal Cigar Jug Band

Jug band music, country blues, a little jellyroll. Yass yass yass.

2 top 50
17 songs
6.7K plays
Well now... We're better than we know, but not as good as we think.
Band/artist history
THE FEDERAL CIGAR started playing jug band music in Portland, Oregon, in 1966 with a collection of college friends. Early participants and occasional sit-ins included Ernie Goble, Bill Boslaugh, Hoot Haugsten, Bob Bailey, Jerry Ballantyne, Ray Horton, Kerry Longacre, Jan Lohr, Larry Wright, Chris Edmiston, Diane Nilsen, Bob Burkholder and probably some other people we can't remember. Jug band music was most actively being played around town by the Ph Phactor Jug Band, Sodgamolie Jug Band and Metropolitan Jug Band in such venues as The New Folksingers Coffeehouse, the Pythian Ballroom and the (now newly restored) Crystal Ballroom. TFC managed to artfully escape fame and fortune, and drifted away in different directions about 1969, never to be heard from again... ...Until 1992, when Horton decided something was missing in his life, and that something was JUG BAND MUSIC! As many old members as could be found were contacted, and the result was the first night we remembered enough songs after 23 years to play music for three hours and have a great time too. More recently long-lost original member Jerry Ballantyne has returned, and we are very glad to have him back. We again have the full complement of the original band! And we also now have two good and rare female vocals with the addition of Susan Saling and Robin Harrower.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
Play live when we can: house parties, weddings, holiday events. Some of us love it, some of us are reluctant. Every performance is special in its own way...
Your musical influences
Gus Cannon, Frank Stokes, Banjo Ikey Robinson and his Bull Fiddle Band, Alabama Rascals, Howlin' Wolf, and of COURSE The Memphis Jug Band... many others.
What equipment do you use?
Mando-banjo, jug, washboard, washtub bass, tomato, kazoo, nose whistle, and the other usual jug band instruments.
Anything else?
"There’s nothing like the feeling of a spring day with the prospect of taking off somewhere in an old car with some other musicians and everyone all cleaned up and flushed with the anticipation of playing for someone, anyone, anywhere. In the old days, that was what it was about. Tuning up on some little bandstand or getting up on the back of a flatbed truck wearing hats and white shirts and ties and, yes, being on the radio once or twice where you feel like a minor celebrity (in your own mind). There was also the feeling of playing music, tinkering with music, or listening to your own special music (or at least what you share with those who are close to you) on a back porch, in a yard, in a kitchen with coffee brewing, with the whole family and circle of extended family creating the most secure, wonderful, sunshiny feeling (especially when it's raining or snowing outside)... a Sunday afternoon on somebody's porch with a whole bunch getting right in straight-back armless chairs that you could really pick in and just picking until your fingers and your mind just swim with it. You could almost get to the point where there is nothing between your mind and the notes." John Hartford
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