R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

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R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders

R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are a string band

String band

This article is about the style of old-time American music. The term string band also referred to the ensembles now known as scratch bands, part of the music of the Virgin Islands....
playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s. As a novelty, they issued a number of recordings on 78rpm discs in the 1970s, long after the format was obsolete. Their three (33? rpm) albums, all recorded in the 1970s on the Blue Goose label

Blue Goose Records

Blue Goose Records is a record label setup in the early 1970s by Nick Perls.While on Blue Goose' sister label Yazoo Records Perls compiled rare 78 rpm recordings made in the 1920s by such singers and guitarists as Charlie Patton, Blind Willie McTell, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson, on Blue Goose Records...
, were titled R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders, R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 2 (1976), and R.

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R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders are a string band
String band

This article is about the style of old-time American music. The term string band also referred to the ensembles now known as scratch bands, part of the music of the Virgin Islands....
playing songs from, and in the style of, the 1920s. As a novelty, they issued a number of recordings on 78rpm discs in the 1970s, long after the format was obsolete. Their three (33? rpm) albums, all recorded in the 1970s on the Blue Goose label
Blue Goose Records

Blue Goose Records is a record label setup in the early 1970s by Nick Perls.While on Blue Goose' sister label Yazoo Records Perls compiled rare 78 rpm recordings made in the 1920s by such singers and guitarists as Charlie Patton, Blind Willie McTell, the Memphis Jug Band, Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson, on Blue Goose Records...
, were titled R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders, R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 2 (1976), and R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders No. 3 (1978); the latter two have been reissued on the Shanachie label as Chasin' Rainbows (No. 2) and Singing In the Bathtub (No. 3).

R. Crumb was the band's frontman and album cover
Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product, or album. The term can refer to either the printed cardboard covers typically used to package sets of 10" and 12" 78 rpm records, single and sets of 12" LP records, sets of 45 rpm records , or the front-facing panel of a compact disc Optical disc...
artist though he is no longer much involved with the band. The band currently includes Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong

Robert Armstrong may refer to:*Robert Armstrong , film actor*Robert Armstrong , plant geneticist*Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster , British member of the House of Lords...
(vocals, saw, guitar), Bob Brozman
Bob Brozman

Bob Brozman is an USA guitarist and ethnomusicologist.He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, Calypso music, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music....
(vocals, various steel instruments, guitar, ukulele), Al Dodge (vocals, mandolin), Terry Zwigoff
Terry Zwigoff

Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. He became well-known for two popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground comics or alternative comics: the documentary Crumb , about underground comics figure Robert Crumb, and the feature Ghost World , adapted from a story in Dan Clowes co...
(saw, cello, Stroh fiddle
Stroh violin

A Stroh violin, or violinophone, is a violin that amplifies its sound through a metal resonator and metal horn s rather than a wooden sound box as on a standard violin....
, and mandolin), and Tony Marcus (vocals guitar and fiddle).

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