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R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are an American retro string band playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s: old-time music, ragtime, "evergreen" jazz standards, western swing, country blues, Hawaiian, hokum, vaudeville and medicine show tunes. Underground cartoonist Robert Crumb was the band's frontman and album cover artist.
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders Number 2 is the second 33⅓ rpm album by the retro string band R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders [2] [3] and its subtitle was "Persian Rug, Crying My Blues Away, Moana March and Other Favorites".
Robert Dennis Crumb (/ k r ʌ m /; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture.
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of is a two-CD album of blues, country, and old-time music recordings that were originally released in the 1920s and 1930s on 78 rpm records. Subtitled The Dead Sea Scrolls of Record Collecting, it is a compilation of songs from rare and hard-to-find records. It was released in 2006. [1] [2] [3]
The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea, a photo of the group naked in bed together, was vetoed by Columbia Records. Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Janis Joplin to grace the front.
The cover, drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, depicts some of the artists appearing on the album performing to skeletal Deadheads. The title comes from the song "The Music Never Stopped" from the Grateful Dead album Blues for Allah.
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"Last Kind Word Blues" gained more notability after being featured in the 1994 documentary film Crumb by Terry Zwigoff, about cartoonist Robert Crumb. [5] In one scene, Crumb talks about his love for old blues, country and jazz music from the 1920s and 1930s and puts a record on the needle.
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