Good Music New York - Swing & Jug Band

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:06:47 -0800

Saturday, January 21st
10:00 pm
FREE
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts apply the twinning principal utilized by Ornette Coleman's early 60s groups and the Max Roach's Double Quartet to the jug band idiom. The result is a particularly robust and raucous jug band sound free of any archival obsessiveness. Comprised of jug band veterans culled from the Don't Look Now Jug Band, MetroPolecats, and Pork Chop, the Jug Addicts' repertoire draws from early jazz, tin pan alley, ragtime, and string band music, along with the classic jug band canon.

4th Street Niteowls

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:04:05 -0800

Friday, January 13th
10:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

The 4th St. Niteowls are a red-hot "washboard-swing" combo from Hoboken, New Jersey. Performing an extensive repertoire from the 1930s early swing era, their distinctive approach brings new life to the classic songs of musical legends such as Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, and Hoagy Carmichael. With back porch Southern vocal stylings and barrel-house Western piano, the 4th St. Niteowls are welcomed in many types of venues - from local corner bars and hip lounges to beach front hotels. Throughout NYC and beyond, they continue to revive an era of vibrant and vintage music. Judging from the response at their shows, washboard-swing is alive, well and definitely kicking.

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:14:49 -0800

Friday, December 16th
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Creative Arts Studio
310 Atlantic Avenue
(between Smith St. & Hoyt St.)
Brooklyn, USA
718-797-5600
$12 in advance/$15 at door

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters deliver a vibrant madcap mix of Hot Speakeasy Jazz and Jubilant Jugband Fervor straight out of the teens and 20’s. They are replete with soulful vocals and harmonies, violin, clarinet, guitar, chromatic harmonica, tin whistle and washtub bass. When upbeat dirges on the jaw harp and spirited original song enter the fray, it becomes a kaleidescopic mix of roaring 20’s exuberance, rural gutbucket soul and dreamtime journey.

Dumbo Arts Festival

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:50:25 -0700

Friday October 14th & Saturday October 15th

There's a big ol' festival going on in Dumbo Brooklyn. The galleries will be open to the public, the baby-strollers will be hogging the sidewalks and, as always, New York's own Jan Bell will be curating some of New Yorks best musical showcases.

The music will vary from American old-time to gypsy-punk-surf-rock, to Macedonean dances to honkey-tonk to, well, a little of everytthing. The lineup is as follows:

Freddy's Hurricane Benefit

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:17:49 -0700

Tuesday, October 11th
9:00 pm
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St.
Corner of 6th Avenue
Brooklyn

There's a benefit goin' on down at Freddy's Back Room. All proceeds will go to hurrican relief. There are apparently a number of bands playing (I've even heard a rumor that the Spunk Lads may make an appearance), however, the only confirmed listing I have is for the Jug Addicts. Think of it as a suprise. Go on down to Freddy's, support a good cause and see what the night may have to offer.

The Roulette Sisters in October

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:29:47 -0700

The Roulette Sisters are an all-girl trio in the tradition of the Boswell and the Andrews Sisters, these sisters play an American repertoire that spans the Carter Family, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Pink Anderson, Memphis Minnie, Papa Charlie Jackson as well as original compositions. The sisters are rumored to have different fathers, but don't you go spreading rumors - they are strong believers in their own kind of familiy values. - and they can probably kick your ass anyway.

They have a very busy October this year. If you don't make it to at least one of their shows you'll kick yourself until the new year.

Friday, October 7th at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
Saturday, October 15th at Superfine
Sunday, October 16th at Union Pool
Friday, October 21st at the Lakeside Lounge
Saturday, October 29th at Barbes
Sunday, October 30th at Pete's Candy Store

Jugfest III

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:55:56 -0700

Thursday, September 8th
7:30 pm
Southpaw
125 5th Ave.
at St. John’s Place
Park Slope, Brooklyn
$7

One great night. Four footstompin' acts.

Thank the lords of train hoppin' there's gonna be another Jugfest at Southpaw. What's could possibly be better than pretending hobos are still riding the rails, cigarettes are sold by beautiful women wandering through speakeasies with trays of goodies, moonshining is a necessity and amplification doesn't exist. Come listen to four of New York's best jug bands perform right in your backyard.

The lineup is:

8:00 - Uncle Dad & the Drunken Swimmers
9:00 - Banjorama!
10:00 - The Wiyos
11:00 - Bill Carney's Jug Addicts

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:21:40 -0700

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters have two gigs coming up this month. They're playing on

Wednesday, August 24th at Cafe Steinhof
Saturday, Augsust 27th at Barbes

River Alexander’s Mad Jazz Hatters deliver a vibrant madcap mix of Hot Speakeasy Jazz and Jubilant Jugband Fervor straight out of the teens and 20’s. They are replete with soulful vocals and harmonies, violin, clarinet, guitar, chromatic harmonica, tin whistle and washtub bass. When upbeat dirges on the jaw harp and spirited original song enter the fray, it becomes a kaleidescopic mix of roaring 20’s exuberance, rural gutbucket soul and dreamtime journey.

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:40:45 -0700

Saturday, August 27th
10:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope
Brooklyn

4th Street Niteowls

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:35:26 -0700

Saturday, August 13th
9:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:56:11 -0700

Saturday, August 6th
8:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St. (at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn

Jug Bands seem to be sprouting from trees these days. Every time I look around a corner I seem to see someone thumping away on a washtub bass or humming a ditty through a kazoo. However, the Brooklyn based Jug Addicts have been around for years and have developed a loyal, if at times fanatic, following. They are a band who are as interested in having fun on stage as they are at putting on a great show.

Red Stick Ramblers

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:43:10 -0700

Tuesday, July 26
7:30 pm
Satalla
37 West 26th St.
(6th Ave/Broadway)
$12 Admission

The Red Stick Ramblers play a mixture of Cajun fiddle tunes, Western Swing, traditional jazz of the 1920s and 1930s alongside a steadily growing number of tradition-inspired originals. Based in Southern Louisiana, they build upon the songs of seminal fiddlers like Dennis McGee and Dewey Balfa, along with jazz and country swing bandleaders such as Bob Wills and Django Reinhardt, finding a common thread of danceable rhythms and strong, elegant melodies.

River Alexander's Mad Jazz Hatters

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:16:35 -0700

Wednesday, July 13th
9pm - 11pm
FREE
Village Bistro
13 Carmine St.
triangle of Bleecker St. and Sixth Ave.
Full Dinner Menu

The Flanks

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:17:44 -0700

Sunday, August 7th
8:00pm
FREE
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

"They say it isn't easy being the hardest working band in show business. That's why the Flanks don't even try."

As far back as 2002, the legendary Flanks have been playing in and around New York, converting everyone within shouting distance to belief in their all-spit-and-no-polish country jug stylings. Most of their songs are originals, the rest are forgotten old-time gems. In sweet, crowd-pleasing harmony, the Flanks sing about shady characters, questionable goings-on, regrettable sets of personal circumstances, petty thievery, chemical impairments, and hitting on recently divorced women.

Their sound has been variously described as old-time music, jug music, string band music, and "garage country"; one commentator has said that "the Flanks are sort of like post-war Blind Willie McTell meets pre-A Star Is Born Kris Kristofferson meets Jimmie Rodgers without the tuberculosis. In other words, you don't want to miss them."

Jimmy Nations Combo

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:18:01 -0700

Saturday, July 16th
10:30pm
FREE
Delta Grill
700 9th Avenue at 48th Street
Manhttan
Full dinner and drinks menu

The Jimmy Nations Combo is one of those rare New York bands who knows their strengths and plays them up. They call themselves Jazz-a-billy. If you're like me and have a hard time decyphering that then just imagine an upright bass being straddled by the bassist, songs performed in a vintage style and material which is influenced by the sounds of the South: Blues, Country, Western Swing, & Rockabilly.

These guys know how to swing and make their audience dance. The love of the music they play pervades their performances and their energy is contagious. 'Nough said.