Thomas Page: WISCONSIN WIGGLES by R. Crumb and his Keep-on-Truckin' Orchestra - YouTube
28 February 2012, 9:45 pm
Thomas Page
WISCONSIN WIGGLES by R. Crumb and his Keep-on-Truckin' Orchestra - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://ttbook.org/book... , 2 -29 Robert Crumb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Musical projects
Crumb has frequently drawn comics about his musical interests in blues, country, bluegrass, cajun, French Bal-musette, jazz, big band and swing music from the 1920s and 30's, and they also heavily influenced the soundtrack choices for his band mate Zwigoff's 1994 Crumb documentary.
Crumb was the leader of the band R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, for which he sang lead vocals, wrote several songs and played banjo and other instruments. Crumb often plays mandolin with Eden and John's East River String Band and has drawn three covers for them: 2009's "Drunken Barrel House Blues," 2008's "Some Cold Rainy Day," and 2011's "Be Kind To A Man When He's Down" which he also plays mandolin on. He was - together with Dominique Cravic - the founder of "Les Primitifs du Futur", a French music band, based on French musette/folk, jazz and blues, and played on that band's 2000 album "World Musette".[25] He as well drew the cover art of this, and some more albums.
Crumb has also released CDs
anthologizing old original performances gleaned from collectible 78 RPM phonograph records. His "That's What I Call Sweet Music" was released in 1999. His "Hot Women: Women Singers from the Torrid Regions" was released in 2009. Naturally, Crumb drew the cover art for these CDs as well. - Thomas Page
I own that! Well, it's buried at a friends house right now... - Spidra Webster
Spidra, that's pretty cool. Can't remember if my old turntables could even play a 78rpm. - Thomas Page
Some turntables were still coming out with 78 speed even through the '70s. Mine's from 1964 or so, though. - Spidra Webster
