Jug Band Music was developed by Black musicians performing in vaudeville and medicine shows in the American South in the early decades of the 20th Century, then revived in the early 1960s by young folkies, jug band music was in the Grateful Dead’s collective DNA from the very beginning, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan having first played together in a group called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions. From the time the nascent Dead went electric as The Warlocks, important compon