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 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 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 Records/ 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