JCUK: The Jake Leg Jug Band

Duncan Wilcox_vocals, double bass; Liam ward_vocals, harmonica, jug, washboard, kazoo, saw; Warren James_ vocals, guitar, banjo;

Alex Clarke_saxophone

Jake Leg’s Duncan Wilcox: “We bill ourselves as a 20s and 30s band. We play jazz, blues, ragtime, gospel, vaudeville, and old-time music. The skiffle movement was basically the British interpretation of the earlier American jug band movement, just like the trad jazz movement was a reinterpretation of the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz, and the British Blues invasion of the 60s mirrored the Chicago electric blues of the 50s. It’s feel-good music and there is a lack of that in the mainstream these days. But the music scene tends to go in circles so everything has its day then tends to come back as a revival stronger than ever with added nostalgia.”