Hardly has a book had such an immediate impact on me. For Christmas 2006 Wendy and Zach bought me a copy of “R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country”. [keep scrolling down]
Sometime in the 1980’s the underground cartoonist R. Crumb, famous for his characters Fritz the Cat and Mr Natural decided to draw 3 series of trading cards. This picture will give you an idea of what they looked like:
The cards were to be distributed in albums of reissued early blues, jazz, and country music. One card was intended for each album, requiring purchasing all the albums to get all the cards. Not a bad promotional thing for the record label. That never happened but the cards were sold, 3 series of 36 each, at local retail outlets in the West Village area of New York. Crumb also designed point-of-purchase displays for the sets. Pictures of those cards and a bio for each musician are the content of this book.
You can get your own copy of the book from Amazon.com.
R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Along with the book came a 21 song CD by the artists illustrated on the cards. You will have to contact Yazoo Records to get more of the music.
This type of music requires an acquired taste for many people, but if you are one of them the album is a delight. All the cuts were recorded between 1927 and 1931 and to the modern ear seem a little primative. But Yazoo has done such a superb job of remastering the music that there is practically none the scratching so common in old 78’s. The musicians are brilliant. At this early date the three types of music; blues, jazz, and country, weren’t as far apart as they are today and if you like one of those genres, you will probably like all three.
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