If you are like me, you will find his style the perfect match for portraying the grit and grime of the early blues lifestyle. Check this stuff out and see if you dig it as much as I do. A nice page of Crumb’s musical art can be found here, including his complete Charley Patton Biography.Ĭrumb also worked on quite a few gig posters and album cover art most notably Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills and a really nifty one for Harmonica Blues: Great harmonica performances of the 1920s and ’30s (Yazoo 1991). Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country which also includes a CD of handpicked music by the artist. Also something to consider is his Heroes of the Blues Trading Cards series.Īn excellent value is R. Crumb Draws the Blues and one titled simply Blues. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders featuring blues, jazz and novelty ragtime - a good enough band to turn down the chance to perform on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s and to reunite in the 1990s for a performance on Garrison Keillor’s popular PBS radio program “A Prairie Home Companion.”Īlong with those albums, much of his blues and jazz artwork can still be had on sites such as and eBay for a reasonable price including the collections R. What you might not realize is Crumb has long been an avid music fan and has produced some fine work inspired by early jazz and blues artists that is to be recommended.Ĭrumb is apparently in possession of a notable record collection and hosted a BBC radio series featuring his favorite records as well as being a solid musician himself, producing three albums with his own band R. Most are aware of Crumb as a founding father in the underground comics movement in the 1960s or perhaps are familiar with his work in Zap Comix and characters such as Mr. Pretty much unknown in Brazil, the singer landed in Rio de Janeiro to have some fun during the Carnival, sunbathe and get away from heroin, which at the time was rare to find in South America. Of particular interest to me is the work of Robert Crumb. The Brazilian magazine Trip published for the first time the lost Janis Joplin topless photos in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, in the summer of 1970. Keep in mind there is plenty of great artwork available that would be a nice addition to any collection or music room. Occasionally jazz and blues fans need to be reminded that we don’t have to limit ourselves strictly to musical recordings.
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