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Banjo versus TV week 89: Chicago's Second Annual Battle of the Jug Bands

A check-in on the Banjo versus TV project — J.R.'s ongoing plan to spend more time on his banjo than on TV. This post covers 11/08/2009 through 11/14/2009.

The big event of this last week was, of course, Chicago's Second Annual Battle of the Jug Bands, organized by Arlo Leach and featuring...

• The Brass Note Jug Band, whom I played with
• The Barehand Jug Band, Chicago's busiest jug band
• Strictly Jug Nuts, this year's winners of the coveted sausage grinder trophy
• Deep Fried Pickle Project, whom I voted for (Sorry, Brass Notes, but they were great!)
• The Hump Night Thumpers, my former band that I'm going to go back to some day
• The Schticklers, Chicago's one-and-only Jewish jug band

I was pleased with my performance. I held my own in Bay Rum Blues (my first VI-II-V-I song) and I bluesed it through both chords of Feelin' Good (the stage debut of my recently-developed string bending talents).

I also kazooed up a solo for Sun Brimmer's Blues and gutbucketed along with I Can't Dance.

There are gobs of photos at my Flickr set.

Also in the last week:

• Purchased The Grascal's self-titled debut CD...
  
  
  
  ...because it's got Dolly Parton joining in on Viva Las Vegas.
• Added two songs to my Learning Songs list because I learned 'em for the battle: Bay Rum Blues and Feelin' Good.

Cross-posted at J.R. Jenks' blog

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