Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin perform live on the combined Bonnie Simmons Show / The Hear and Now, Thursday, Dec. 8

As program hosts Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson combine forces during the KPFA Winter Fund Drive, they present roots music legends Geoff Muldaur & Jim Kweskin, joined by fiddler/singer Suzy Thompson, live in the KPFA studio, with Tony Ferro engineering. Cohorts since the early 1960s and the heyday of Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band, … Continued


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