Music, Comics & Collecting Records: R. Crumb & Jerry Zolten

Sep 24

Robert Crumb

This week on American Routes we spin some shellac and wax nostalgic with the iconic cartoonist, musician and record collector Robert Crumb, who’ll share with us his love of musical times gone by. Then, we talk to educator and vinyl aficionado Jerry Zolten about the story of Paramount Records, started by a furniture manufacturer, whose recorded legacy is now contained in two swank suitcases.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Chasin' Rainbows R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders

Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie

Keep on Truckin' Hot Tuna

Burgers, Grunt

Sittin' on Top of the World Taj Mahal

Dancing the Blues, Private

Diddy Wa Diddy John Jackson

Country Blues and Ditties, Arhoolie

SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 1

excerpt: Keep On Truckin' Donovan

What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, Pye

Worried Man Blues George Jones

The Unbroken Circle, Dualtone

Hell Hound on My Trail Cassandra Wilson

Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note

Instrumental: Moana March R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders

Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie

SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 2

excerpt: Fox Musette Les Primitifs du Futur

World Musette, Sunnyside

excerpt: There! I've Said It Again Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra

Sentimental Journey: Pop vocal Classics Vol. 1, 1942-1946, Rhino

excerpt: Bells The Beau Hunks

Play the Original Little Rascals Music: 50 Roy Shields Themes, Koch

excerpt: Lotta Lovin' Gene Vincent

The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent, Razor & Tie

excerpt: I'm Comin' Virginia Bix Beiderbecke

Singin' the Blues, Columbia Masterpieces

excerpt: Down in the Cemetery Billy Bird

excerpt: Hollywood Rag Cannon's Jug Stomper

excerpt: Happy Days and Lonely Nights Charley Fry & His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra

excerpt: Goofus Slim Lamar and His Southerners

Instrumental: Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig/ Camptown Hornpipe Carolina Chocolate Drops

Leaving Eden, Nonesuch

Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley

Before The Blues Vol. 2: The Early American Black Music Scene, Yazoo

SEGMENT: R. Crumb pt. 3

excerpt: River Blues R. Crumb and His Keep On Truckin' Orchestra

excerpt: Walking In the Parlor Al Hopkins' Bucklebusters

excerpt: Lonesome Drag Tuba Skinny

Pyramid Strut, self-released

excerpt: Yellow Dog Blues Wise String Orchestra

Walk Right In Cannon's Jug Stompers

Best of Cannon's Jug Stompers, Yazoo

End Bed: Yellow Dog Blues Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks

Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Tradition and Moderne

HOUR TWO

Riverside Blues King Oliver's Jazz Band

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant

Till the Seas Run Dry Dom Flemons

Prospect Hill, Music Maker

Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 The Chicago Black Swans

Those Dirty Blues Vol. 3, Grammercy

Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, Columbia

Your Southern Can Is Mine The White Stripes

De Still, Sympathy for the Record Industry

Death Letter Son House

Father of the Folk Blues, Columbia

Careless Love Ray Charles

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, ABC

Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler

American Routes original recording,

Pullman Passenger Train Pullman Porters Quartette

The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 , Third Man/ Revenant

Way Up In NYC Loudin Wainwright III

High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, 2nd Story

SEGMENT: Jerry Zolten

excerpt: The Bumps Jeanette James and Her Synco Jazzers