The Arts Center of Cannon County presents Tennessee Mafia Jug Band for one performance on Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls and interstate highways of Goodlettsville, home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitley and some living country music performers, comes the most entertaining “blast from the past” since Lester Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys. They’re the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band– five guys and a scrub board, with roots like wisdom teeth.The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band have shamelessly stolen a feature of the old Roy Acuff Show– a bit known as “Pap & the Jug Band.“ There’s only so many graveyard numbers or raunchy love songs that even the most rabid country audience can sit through without some kind of relief. This frolicking fivesome brightens up the stage with rib-tickling old-time tunes.The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band not only knows the music, they wear the costumes, tell corny jokes and even do slapstick gags that throw a cable T.V.-numbed audience into hysterics.
Tennessee Mafia Jug Band to perform