Music is reasonably unpredictable.  It achieves surprising results when intuition takes the place of reflection and spontaneity sets ideas free. Swedish musicians, guitarist and singer Jon Eimre and tuba player Björn Lundström, got together in a basement to try playing some of their songs back in 2020. A few months later, drummer Mikael Kerslow joined them, he also had a recording studio in his home basement, which made it possible to record some tracks. A couple of years later, harmonica player Mats Qwarfordt became part of the group, and they released an EP with six songs. Finally, an old friend, the renowned guitarist Per Olof Sjöström, helped with the recording project for their first album. 
Blues music serves them as the seed that gives rise to strikingly lucid melodies and rhythms that resonate like skeletons supporting bold ideas, much like Tom Waits masterfully showed in "Swordfishtrombones". Taking things a few steps further, The Family Jukebox draw inspiration from ragtime and jug bands from a century ago, from the blues of the great ladies, and from the early jazz of New Orleans. "How the Moon Was Strung up on a Nail and Nine Other Cocktails" is an album that stands out for many reason, not only because these musicians are truly unpredictable, but also because it reveals the potential to modernize the music it contains.