Music, Comics & Collecting Records: R. Crumb & Jerry Zolten
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 & 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 Classicals Vol. 1, 1942-1946, Rhino
excerpt: Bells The Beau Hunks
Play The Original Little Rascals Music: 50 Roy Shield Themes, Kock
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
unknown, Columbia
excerpt: Happy Days and Lonely Nights Charley Fry & His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra
unknown, Victor
excerpt: Hollywood Rag Cannon's Jug Stompers
unknown, unknown
excerpt: Goofus Slim Lamar and His Southerners
unknown, Victor
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
unknown, Ordinary
excerpt: Walking In the Parlor Al Hopkins' Bucklebusters
unknown, Vocalion
excerpt: Lonesome Drag Tuba Skinny
Pyramid Strut, Self Produced
excerpt: Yellow Dog Blues Wise String Orchestra
unknown, Vocalion
Walk Right In Cannon's Jug Stompers
Best of the Cannon's Jug Stompers, Yazoo
End Bed: Yellow Dog Blues Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks
Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Tradition & Moderne
HOUR TWO
Riverside Blues King Oliver's Jazz Band
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol. 1 Lobber-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 Stijl, 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 Loudon Wainwright III
High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, 2nd Story
SEGMENT: Jerry Zolten
excerpt: The Bumps Jeanette James and Her Synco Jazzers
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Buck Town Blues Blind Blake
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: You Can't Do What My Last Man Did Ethel Waters
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Chicago Buzz Junie Cobb's Hometown Orchestra
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Find Me at the Greasy Spoon Coot Grant and 'Kid' Wesley Wilson
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Ada Jane's Blues Trixie Smith
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: If I Had My Way Rev. T.T. Rose
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Come Right In Ida Cox & Lovie Austin
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
excerpt: Galion Stomp Lovie Austin
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant
Instrumental: The Dream Ry Cooder
Jazz, Reprise
Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson
Risky Blues, King
Stack-A-Records Tom Tall
Rockin' Bones 1950s Punk & Rockabilly, Rhino
Rock and Roll Records J.J. Cale
Any Way the Wind Blows: The Anthology, Mercury
New Minglewood Blues Noah Lewis and His Jug Band
Gimme dat Harp Boy: Roots of the Captain, Ozit
New New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Bros.
End Bed: Walk Right In Duane Eddy
Twangin' Up a Storm, RCA