Member Since: 1/6/2006
Band Website: http://jugadelics.com/
Band Members: Jessica and Erez Eller, Washtub Bob Nield, Brother Todd Stoughton, Tim (Mad Dog) MacSweeney, Tom Parker, Phil Juhas on the Jug, and Erik Lambro and Alex Hunt on washboard (s), sometimes one at a time, sometimes at the same time sometimes, despite the CT Blue Law against this double washboard deal. You never know who might show up - Tim once had a dream that Tom Jones showed up to sing with us, but it hasn't really happened - yet.
Toad and the Jugadelics are featured on Jugs Across America, playing the above tune in the above video "Blue Flowers."
Thanks to Banjo Kellie of the Escape the Floodwater Jug Band and, most notably Jim Kweskin! Jugs Across America features 20 different bands, "all jumpin', jivin', pickin', grinnin', sassin', and havin' theyselves a helluva time, Jethro. Extremely compatible to swing, bluegrass, flapper, Dixie, hot jazz, and Tex-Mex, jug is the funnybone in the heart of Americana blent with a virtuosity as would make Benny Goodman himself rollick. Spike Jones practiced this kind of material, as does Dan Hicks, and wait'll you hear this hambone in Fritz Richmond's Barbecue Orchestra playing the lips in Sweet Sue. Each one of these jokers, jivers, and jig-time jack-of-all-trades is a master of his or her instrument (and voice!), tickling it until strings and reeds laugh and romp like an Olympic sprinter on nitrous oxide," according to areview written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark S. Tucker.
Influences: Toad and the Jugadelics are mentioned in the entry for Jug band
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“Jug bands have continued to exist and evolve to the present day. John Sebastian still leads the J-Band, which included not only musicians from the modern folk revival such as the late Fritz Richmond from the Kweskin band, but also Yank Rachell, mandolin player and jug band leader from the original era. Some bands remain faithful to the original roots, while others continually expand the jug band repertoire to include other folk music, popular music, and classical music forms, such as The Hobo Gobbelins, The Kitchen Syncopators and the Inkwell Rhythm Makers. Two Connecticut-based jug bands, The Blue Lights and The Jugadelics reflect commitment to jugband traditions, including the utilization of home-made instruments, while infusing original songs in the jug band style…â€http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_band
Sounds Like: Well, Toad and the Jugadelics! Sort of acoustic /electric / traditional / progressive / original / bluegrass / folk / rock / R&B and "the unexpected cover," played on some of the most despised musical instruments known to humankind! You know - 21st Century Jug Band music!
Samples at the Soundclick site and http://www.myspace.com/jugadelia and http://jugadelics.com/Or, better yet, click play below:
Record Label: We eschew labels, but we like chewy labels...