The Country Valley Jug Stompers stir up an intoxicating blend of primitive blues, ragtime, and country and western music of the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. At the core of this jug band is a hybrid of rural American folks styles and obscure Japanese jug band music. Old time music enthusiast and guitarist Mark Kuniya really does play jug, and like any half-Japanese hillbilly, often confuses his r’s and l’s while singing about the “AppalAsian†hills. Fourth-generation Nevadan, Krista Jenkins, on guitar/mandolin, is a cowgirl whose smooth country vocals and yodeling hearkens back to the days of Patsy Montana. On the washtub bass, Natalie Nielson delivers a pulsing one-string rhythm that would drive any horse home. Along with performing at various watering holes, farmers’ markets, and hoedowns in the Carson Valley and Reno-Tahoe area, the band has appeared at jug band festivals in San Francisco (2007) and Sutter Creek (2008).
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