Jim Kweskin!

[dhermann1]

Maybe the 60's are a little outside the Lounge's scope, but the Jim Kweskin Jug Band introduced me, and many, many other people to what has been described as "old timey progressive music" a looooong time ago.
Anyway, Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur were at (Le) Poisson Rouge in the Village last night. (For those of you confused about the name, that's the preposterous, ludicrous, sappy, insipid, lame, inane name that the new owners have called what used to be the Village Gate. Harrumph. The place is still great, food was fabulous. But, oy, the name!)
Anyhow, Kweskin and Muldaur have been playing a few gigs in a few places lately. Everybody there last night seemed to be old friends or relations. It was a wonderful, tuneful nostalgic evening. Brought back many many fond memories of the long hair days. Sigh. Cambridge Mass was a pretty cool place to be in 1970. We determined that I must have seen them (the whole original group, including the late Fritz Richmind and Maria Muldaur) in 1966 at Folk City, in the Village. Oy. 40 plus years sure can go by fast. I picked up a wonderful CD by Geoff Muldaur of Bix Beiderbecke's music, if any Bix fans are out there.
http://www.amazon.com/Private-Astronomy-Vision-Music-Beiderbecke/dp/B0000C3I2R

 

[Fletch]

40 plus years sure can go by fats.

Who you callin' "Fats"? lol

 

[dhermann1]

Typo corrected

Fletch, if you saw the condition of my posts before I proof read them 4 or 5 times prior to posting, you would guffaw.
I'll give Jim a lot of credit. At age about 69, he has a little less thatching on the roof, and it's a little greyer, but his waistline looks exactly the same as in 1966. More than I can say for my tubby self.
BTW, you still in town? I blew it for the Columbia game, but there are a couple left. I really want to get to one.
There are also basketball games at Fordham's great old Rose Hill gym.

 

[Fletch]

Sorry old man - back in the black loam country. Just did a presentation for my biz comm class on the evolution of the telephone book. Went to the public library and made xeroxes of them back to 1916 - boy, was that a long strange trip.

 

[carouselvic]

Jim Kweskin

There was a time in my life that I would call Jim a friend. Not best friends or anything close, but we would never pass with out stopping and conversing awhile. Jim lived outside of my old home town on a farm/commune owned by Thomas Hart Benton and run by Mel Lyman. Jim knew I enjoyed his music and would always make it a point to let me know when they were playing in the area. I would be invited to break bread and listen to music at the farm. They were a close knit family.
The farm is now occupied by Benton's grandson who is also an artist.
http://www.anthonybentongude.com/