Hubby jenkins tour
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Living Blues #290 (May/June 2024) features 38-year-old Hubby Jenkins on the cover. Jenkins is one of the best of the recent wave of young African American musicians doing a deep dive into pre-war blues, string band, and other roots music, and developing their own sound based on these acoustic styles. An early member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jenkins is now exploring his musical path as a solo artist. Guitarist Leonard “Lowdown” Brown relocated from Chicago to Houston in 1981 and over the last 43 years has made a name for himself as one of the most versatile musicians on the blues scene there. On the heels of his critically acclaimed 2023 CD, Blues Is Calling Me, we talk with Brown about his musical journey. Photographer and researcher Axel Küstner first traveled from his native Germany to the United States in 1978 where he explored the backroads of the blues, tracing its roots. Over the next 13 years Küstner recorded and photographed dozens of rural blues artists at their homes. We present a collection of some his rare photographs. This issue’s Let It Roll f
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Hubby Jenkins (New York)
Hubby Jenkens is a talented multi-instrumentalist who is on a mission to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he began to delve into his Southern roots – following the thread of African American history that wove itself through country blues, ragtime, fiddle and banjo, and traditional jazz.
Hubby got his higher musical education started as a busker, and developed his guitar and vocal craft on the sidewalks and subway platforms of New York City, performing material by those venerable artists whose work he was quickly absorbing. An ambitiously itinerant musician, he then took his show on the road, playing the streets, coffee shops, bars, and house parties of cities around the US.
After years of busking around the country and making a name for himself, Hubby became acquainted with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Since 2010, he has been an integral part of the Grammy award-winning group, while continuing to work as a solo artist.
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Hubby Jenkins
American musician
Hubby Jenkins | |
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Hubby Jenkins performing at the IBMA Bluegrass Live! festival in Raleigh, North Carolina on October 2, 2021 | |
| Born | Brooklyn, New York |
| Genres | Old-time music |
| Instrument(s) | Banjo, guitar |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Labels | Need To Know Music |
| Website | hubbyjenkins.com |
Musical artist
Hubby Jenkins is an American multi-instrumentalist who studies and performs old-time American music. He is a former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Rhiannon Giddens band, and has been nominated for Grammy and Americana awards.
Biography
Hubby Jenkins was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended PS 11 in Clinton Hills and Brooklyn Technical High School.[1] As a young man, he played the saxophone and bass guitar.[2] After discovering the music of Skip James and Bukka White, he began exploring how African Americans influenced American roots music.[3][4]
Career
Jenkins began performing as a busker in New York City, then booked gigs in local c
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