{"id":3301,"date":"2010-11-16T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2010-11-16T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:14:30","slug":"devines-jug-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/11\/16\/devines-jug-band\/","title":{"rendered":"CD review: Devine&#8217;s Jug Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met with the editor of the Reviewer the other day at a Point Loma coffee house and he gave me a fat stack of CDs to listen to. Just a bunch of random stuff. I&#8217;m all about discovering new music so I took them home and immediately started consuming the audio. The disc I put in first was a band called Devine&#8217;s Jug Band from San Francisco and their self titled from 2008 is such a refreshing sound compared to all the emo music I&#8217;ve been listening to these days.<\/p>\n<p>This four piece takes on the sound of the old jug bands from the 1920&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s. I didn&#8217;t grow up in Memphis in the 1930&#8217;s and chances are you didn&#8217;t either, but if you were in Memphis or Mississippi at that time, you&#8217;d most likely see a band like this play on the unpaved street corners. Pure Americana. Very traditional. Devine&#8217;s Jug Band is complete with kazoos, washboards, harmonicas, fiddles and jugs. I said jugs. No real sexual innuendo there. I digress. There are 13 tracks on this album with song titles like, &#8220;Acorn Stomp&#8221; and &#8220;Cocaine Habit Blues&#8221; and &#8220;Smackin&#8217; the Kazoo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drummer Pete Devine put this band together back in 2007 and last time we heard, Devine is still a member of Gaucho, The Kally Price Blues Combo and Mal Sharpe&#8217;s Jazz Band. There are still jug bands out there preserving the history and supporting live performances. It&#8217;s almost like a super esoteric, retro counter culture at this point. Next time there&#8217;s a jug band festival up near Berkeley will you take a road trip with me???<\/p>\n<p>-Mookie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devines_jb_cd1_cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devines_jb_cd1_cover-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devines_jb_cd1_cover.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devines_jb_cd1_cover.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/devines_jb_cd1_cover.jpg?w=340&amp;ssl=1 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with the editor of the Reviewer the other day at a Point Loma coffee house and he gave me a fat stack of CDs to listen to. Just a bunch of random stuff. I&#8217;m all about discovering new music so I took them home and immediately started consuming the audio. The disc I put in first was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1095,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2009\/07\/21\/modern-blackface\/","url_meta":{"origin":3301,"position":0},"title":"modern blackface","author":"admin","date":"July 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Devine\u2019s Jug Band Review by J. 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