R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Music
R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country Details
About the Author R. Crumb is the leading cartoonist in the American “underground comix” movement. He is the creator of Mr. Natural, the iconic “Keep on Truckin” T-shirt image, and Fritz the Cat. His book The R. Crumb Handbook was a Booksense bestseller. He lives in France.Terry Zwigoff is the award-winning director of the documentary Crumb.Stephen Calt, the author of two acclaimed musical biographies, lives in New York City.David Jasen is the director of the Popular Music Archive at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Read more
Reviews
As one who loves roots music, including blues and jazz, this book has great characatures of famous artists of the past, in a style that captures a certain grittiness and charm of the era. There are very brief descriptions of each artist as well, but just enough to tell you about the artist as you read through. If you like R Crumb's art style, and love music, this a fun book to have.His drawings are full color and large, and, the book has all of the artists from the R. Crumb collectable card series for Jazz, Country, and Blues. The CD, btw, is superb, with a wonderful sampler of great artists, and is alone worth the price. Highlights of those included are the Memphis jug band, Gus cannon, skip James, jaybird Coleman charley Patton, Willie McTell, Shelor family, Crockets Kentucky mountaineers, Burnett and Rutherford, Weems string band, king Oliver, jelly roll Morton, jimmy no one, and many others 21 tracks in all).These are early artists from blues, old time /country and early jazz.This simply is fun, and , likely to expose you to some if not many artists, even if you know some of the genres well.
