Jim Kweskin (born July 18, 1940, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American folk, jazz, and blues musician, [1] and the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, also known as Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Bob Siggins and Bruno Wolfe.

These days Jim is best known as a singer and bandleader, but he also created one of the bedrock guitar styles of the folk revival, adapting the ragtime-blues fingerpicking of artists like Mississippi John Hurt and Pink Anderson to the more complex chords of pop and jazz.

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Jim Kweskin is an American folk, jazz, and blues musician, and the founder of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, also known as Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur,...

Jim Kweskin is the founder of the legendary 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Mel Lyman & Bruno Wolfe. During the 5 yrs they were together, they transformed the sounds of pre-WWII rural music into a springboard for their good-humored performances.

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At 85, Kweskin has lost none of his musical prowess. His voice is supple and strong. His self-styled guitar work, fashioned out of close listening to ragtime, early blues, and old-time music practitioners, sounds as complete as ever.

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