Robert Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Published 43 months ago
Over 100 comic portraits of musicians which were released as a trading card set in the early 1980s
Robert Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country features over 100 comic portraits of musicians, from the relatively unknown (Barbecue Bob, Blind Gary Davis and Peg Leg Howell) through to the instantly recognizable (The Carter Family and Louis Armstrong). Released as a trading card set in the early 1980s, this beautiful realized book is the first time all of the portraits have been collected together in one volume.
"Robert drew the musicians from existing studio and family photographs," film director Terry Zwigoff says in the introduction. "But I think he was more inspired by a love of the music on the 78s than he was by the photos themselves."
So it's just as well that Abrams have stuck inside the back cover a 21 track CD of Senior Crumb's favourite songs from the Yazoo Records back catalogue (www.yazoorecords.com) to entertain you while flicking through its 240 pages.
