Unable to hear popular music on BBC radio, English teenagers started their own bands, imitating the blues and jug music they heard on old American 78s and 45s. I can't name all the rock groups that evolved from the jug and skiffle music. John Lennon and Paul McCartney had a skiffle band called The Quarrymen before they started the Beatles. The Lovin' Spoonful started as a jug band. Really, the big difference was that English bands used a tea chest instead of a washboard.
Fish says all the attention is just one sign that awareness of Louisville jug music is growing.
Another indication is his almost daily Internet correspondence with jug bands from as far away as Australia and Germany. Even hipsters in New York City seem to be getting into the act. Last year the Juggernaut Jug Band completed a successful East Coast tour in support of their first CD, Perhaps You Don't Recognize Us. A lot of people came up and tried to relate it to Spike Jones because of the washboard and sound effects. I guess there will always be a market for novelty music.