Sold Date: December 4, 2018
Start Date: June 20, 2016
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"CHIMPIN' THE BLUES"

With Jerry Zolten & R. Crumb

East River Records, 2013

LP

New Condition - Never Played - Still Sealed

Cover Art by R. Crumb

"Musician and blues record collector John Heneghan (who with his musical partner Eden Brower) for the core of the East Side String Band) has the enviable luck of calling cartoonist (and 78 rpm blues collector) Robert Crumb a close friend. Crumb has created the great cover images for the four ESSB albums and has been Heneghan's guest on Heneghan's weekly internet radio show titled "John's Old Time Radio Show". So leave it to Heneghan to make an LP from a 2003 radio program which was produced by a radio host (and ANOTHER 78rpm blues record collector!) - Jerry Zolten - for the small 1700-watt college radio station at Penn State University, available for the first time in 10 years. 

 The show - titled "Chimpin' The Blues" consisted of Crumb visiting Zolten with 11 of his rarest, as well as most entertaining , records and chatting with Zolten between the discs being played. It aired on a few public radio stations (via the Public Radio Exchange) but hasn't been available since. (By the way "Chimpin'" is a word that Crumb created that means "chewin' the fat" or just discussing old records.)

The first time you listen to this LP, you'll play it all the way through and find it an educational experience; these guys know their facts (and Crumb knows the lyrics to most of the records in his collection) But , because the LP has the music tracks separated from the dialogue, you'll be able to return to the album to hear great songs by artists you probably never heard of (but should) performing hokum' blues, jug band blues and "happy" blues. No, there are no Robert Johnson or "down and out" blues here. But there are lots of banjo and ukuleles. You'll hear Eddie Head and Family sing "Down on Me" (from 1930), the record that inspired Janis Joplin's hit recording., and the original "Walk Right In" (from 1928) by Cannon's Jug Stompers, the basis for the Rooftop Singers' chart-topper in the 1960s. The transfers are superb and hardly a scratch is heard." - Steve Ramm

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