![]() Party poopers! Joplin was already a huge comics fan, so she opted for Crumb's artwork as a plan B. The original album cover idea was to have Joplin and company pose nude, piled onto a bed, but that idea got vetoed by the publisher, Columbia Records. This explosion of illustrated artistry manages to incorporate track titles and band credits into an action-packed comic page split into a spider-webbed layout. The most famous being Cheap Thrills by Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company: Of course, Crumb is also known for providing cover art for albums on a strictly freelance basis. Many tracks on these works constitute the only known digital recording of these songs preserved from their original 78-RPM record publication. Hot Women: Women Singers from the Torrid Regions (2009) It wasn't until later that Country & Western fell to the rednecks and became all Republican jingoistic anthems.Īnyway, further education resources on early 20th-century music curated by R. Country was then a derivative of folk, jazz, and blues styles, and in the 1960s was mostly the domain of long-haired hippies. ![]() Perhaps at this point we should interject that "Country music," the genre, had just about the opposite reputation pre-1970s that it does today. He also produced a set of trading cards called "Pioneers of Country Music," with 40 pieces in total. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country, a book with an accompanying CD. He has even gone so far as to publish extensive works of music preservation. He has since established himself, as a side gig, as one of the most passionate music historians invested in early 20th-century recordings. Crumb has also continued dabbling in music, playing mandolin in Eden and John's East River String Band, appearing on three of their albums well into the 2000s. The band was naturally a Ragtime / Jazz revival group, with - natch - Crumb providing the cover art.Ĭrumb's primary motivation in creating the band was not so much to become a rock star, as to have a hand in preserving and staying connected to the early 20th-century music scene. Crumb and his Keep on Trucking Orchestra," circa their first actual record contract. The Cheap Suit Serenaders were Crumb and a colleague of his from the underground comix scene, Robert Armstrong, plus documentary film maker Terry Zwigoff, Al Dodge, and a few other hangers-on.
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