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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
Listen - 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
