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Banks’s musical career dates back to 1963, when he built his first guitar. He formed his first band in 1967, taking inspiration from the UK top 40 hits that a local radio station transmitted from a frigate moored off the coast of the island.^[1]

Bankie’s first number one hit in 1977 was “Prince of Darkeness” and followed that with several chart topping songs over the next few years.^{[citation needed]} With the release of his first Album Roots and Herbs in 1978, recorded with his band, The Dune People, Banks pioneered reggae music in the Eastern Caribbean.

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Executive producer Rich Reardin interviews his old friend Bob Lucas in Bloomington, Indiana on a rainy February 27, 2008.  Bob has been living in Ohio for many years adding his compositions and songs to a theater company called “Mad River Theatre Works”.  Before that, among many other bands and solo work, he was the founder of “Eclectricity”, a fabulous folk group that toured extensively in that genre. Bob plays his banjo here, and there is one old cut from a recording I made in the mid eighties with Eclectricity. – Rich

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In Search of a Song executive producer Rich Reardin interviews Todd Kwaitt, writer and director of the film Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost.  Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost is a documentary film on the history of Jug Band Music. It traces the roots of American music beginning with Gus Cannon and Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Memphis Jug Band and the Dixieland Jug Blowers from the 1920’s, and weaves a tapestry through interviews, live performances, archival footage, and photographs showing their influence on the ever-popular folk and rock movements of the 1960’s.

The movie is written and directed by independent filmmaker Todd Kwait, and includes interviews and live performances by John Sebastian from the Lovin’ Spoonful, Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Bill Keith, Maria Muldaur, and the late Fritz Richmond from the influential Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, plus many more artists who were influenced by the great jug band musicians from our past.

This movie is a historical retrospective that spans the globe and honors many great talents from yesterday and today. Filming for Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost took the crew to Japan, Sweden, and Kingston, Ontario. Closer to home, filming took place in Northern California; Woodstock, New York; Portland, Oregon; Memphis and western Tennessee; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Louisville, Kentucky; and Cleveland, Ohio.

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Writer and Director Todd Kwaitt.