Notable Players
- Will Shade vocalist and multi-instrumentalist member of the Memphis Jug Band who recorded from the 20s until his death in 1966
- Fritz Richmond (1939-2005) has performed on numerous recordings from America and Japan. One of his washtub basses is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
- Brian Ritchie, of the band The Violent Femmes, plays a 'tubless electric washtub bass'.
- Les Claypool, of Primus, often plays a variation called a whamola.
- Len Garry, Ivan Vaughan, and Nigel Walley, tea-chest bass players of The Quarrymen.
- That 1 Guy plays a variation of the washtub bass called the 'Magic Pipe' and a few other self-built instruments.
- Terry Devine, of The Genuine Jug Band from Vancouver, B.C.
- The late Dennis Johnson from the Gutter Brothers.
- Zakk Wylde from Black Label Society plays washtub bass on recordings with the band. These parts are often performed live by the bands' bassist using an electric bass.
- Tony Davis, of The West Virginia Ridge Runners(Rock-A-Billy Band), Also of Scaggs and Davis Mountain Music Band, Pleasant View, West Virginia.
- The late Terry McCoy, From The Home Made Music Band(50`s-60`s-70`s), Hazard-Pikeville, Kentucky area.
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