The Sixties were famous not only of its radical politics, but for its radical experiments in music. John Coltrane pushed the limits of Jazz improvisation. Jimmy Hendrix pushed the limits of the electric guitar. Joanie Mitchell pushed the limits of the song as a poetic art form.

But the term radical comes from a Latin word meaning “root”. For some musicians of the time, radical music meant a return to older forms of folk music and blues.

One such group was the Jefferson Street Jug Band, local College Park musicians who championed such instruments as the whisky jug, washtub bass, kazoo and washboard. 

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