While I have friends who play in bands, and, on occasion, even make music myself, I rarely, if ever, listen to anything recorded after the start of World War II. Yes, every once in a while I pull out a record by the Ramones, Television or the Velvet Underground, but, for the most part, I […]
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R. Crumb on the death of authentic American music
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 78 rpm records, authenticity, Benny Goodman, Charley Patton, comics, comix, commercialization, country music, Dock Boggs, Duke Ellington, jazz blues, Jelly Roll Morton, John Olson, music, music history, New Year's Eve, noise, pre-war jazz and blues, R Crumb, Radio Dismuke, sophistication, underground comics, Wolf Eyes 20 Comments