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Earl McDonald (October 2, 1885 – April 28, 1949) was an American singer and jug blower, noted as a pioneer in creating and recording
jug band A jug band is a musical band, band employing a jug (instrument), jug player and a mix of conventional and homemade instruments. These homemade instruments are ordinary objects adapted to or modified for making sound, like the washtub bass, washbo ...
music. He was born in
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. He formed his first jug band in 1902 and toured widely, performing in
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by 1914.Applegate, Kris (2014)
''Legendary Locals of Louisville''
Arcadia Publishing. p. 73.
Later he established the Original Louisville Jug Band
Jug Band Hall of Fame. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
and the Old Southern Jug Band, which recorded in 1924 with the singer
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and the
fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...
player Clifford Hayes, joining with Hayes to form the Dixieland Jug Blowers for recordings. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he performed regularly with his band, the Ballard Chefs, on radio station WHAS, helping to popularize jug band music, and made over 40 recordings.McDonald, Earl
FindaGrave.com
Retrieved 10 October 2016.
McDonald died in Louisville in 1949 and was buried in an unmarked grave. A gravestone was provided in 2009 at the instigation of supporters of the annual Jug Band Jubilee.


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1885 births 1949 deaths Jug band musicians Musicians from Louisville, Kentucky Singers from Kentucky 20th-century African-American male singers 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers {{US-jazz-musician-stub