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The jug, the kazoo and the early blues
An ethnomusicologist and a professor at the University of Memphis and the University of Mississippi, and the author of several books about early country blues, Dr David Evans has followed the path of researchers like Alan Lomax, making numerous field recordings of roots music, blues and related genres. But he also practices what he teaches and writes about : in 1989, he founded the Last Chance Jug Band to revive a style of music very popular in the early twentieth century and first recorded in the 1920s, and the band released a first album in 1997, the one we're reviewing here.
