Recordings

No Easier Way (2008)

1. Never Say Never
2. Sail Away Ladies
3. Feel Like Singing
4. The Cowboy and the Hippie Love Child
5. Have You Ever Been to Blacksburg?
6. Sally Ann
7. Save Your Seeds
8. The Great White Way
9. Time to Go
10. Fall On My Knees
11. Quitting Time
12. Vagabond Bound
13. I Got Drunk on Saturday Night
14. The Empties
15. Whiskey and Wine

The first Jugbusters release in three years and the debut studio recording, No Easier Way represents a new musical direction for the band.  The album features three traditional fiddle tunes and twelve original songs, showcasing the Jugbusters songwriting talents for the first time.  No Easier Way also goes beyond the traditional string band sound of the previous albums, adding electric guitar and drums to the already-big Jugbusters sound.  No Easier Way is available via CDBaby, iTunes, record stores in the New River Valley, and directly from the band at one of our many live shows.

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Keep The Crows Out (2005)

1. Sally Ann
2. I’m So Afraid of Losing You Again
3. Sugar In The Gourd
4. Polecat Blues
5. You Done Me Wrong
6. Lonesome Road Blues
7. Sugar Hill
8. The Bottle Let Me Down
9. Sourwood Mountain
10. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
11. Your Cheatin’ Heart
12. Fly Around
13. June Apple
14. Milwaukee Blues
15. Sweet Marie

Currently the only live record in existence from the nationally-known Floyd Country Store in Floyd, VA, the second Jugbusters album features a terrific mix of vocal and musical styles from band members Bill Richardson, Russ Boyd, Bob Browder, John Hylton, Nicholas Polys, and Larry Houghton. Keep The Crows Out foreshadows the band’s recent forays into honky-tonk, including tunes from the likes of country legends Ray Price and Merle Haggard.

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Radio Show (2004)

1. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
2. Worried Man Blues
3. Mississippi Sawyer
4. Shout Little Lula
5. New River Train
6. Cheetah Waltz
7. Story (Brian Fain)
8. Katie Cline
9. Polecat Blues
10. Kentucky Waltz
11. Sally Ann
12. Rocky Island
13. Sweet Marie
14. Ragtime Annie
15. Announcer
16. You Better Get In That Number
17. Benton’s Dream
18. Pretty Polly
19. Sourwood Mountain (dance)
20. Sourwood Mountain
21. Going Around This World
22. John Brown’s Dream
23. Reuben’s Train
24. Cluck Old Hen
25. Story (John Hylton)
26. Lonesome Road Blues
27. Cripple Creek
28. Home Sweet Home

Recorded live in June 2004 at the Rex Theater in historic Galax, VA, the first Jugbusters album contains over 75 minutes of two-stepping and flat-footing music. The band lineup at the time featured Bill Richardson on fiddle, Brien Fain on banjo, John Hylton and Nicholas Polys on guitar, and Larry Houghton on bass.

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CDs are available directly from the Jugbusters at their many live shows around the New River Valley. We also have a limited number of t-shirts available — ask a member of the band if you’re interested!