The compilation cd that comes with the book above, each artist featured has a brief biography accompanied by a full colour illustration by Crumb. A tribute to the musical innovators who helped inspire him as an illustrator and a lover of music. Tracks all picked by the man himself…
1 Memphis Jug Band – On The Road Again
2 Blind Willie McTell – Dark Night Blues
3 Minglewood Blues – Cannon’s Jug Stompers
4 Skip James – Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
5 Jaybird Coleman – I’m Gonna Cross The River Of Jordan ; Some O’ These Days
6 Charley Patton – High Water Everywhere
7 Frank Stokes – I Got Mine
8 Dock Boggs – Sugar Baby
9 Shelor Family – Big Bend Gal
10 Hayes Shepherd – The Peddler And His Wife
11 Crockett’s Kentucky Mountaineers – Little Rabbit
12 Burnett & Rutherford – All Night Long Blues
13 East Texas Serenaders – Mineola Rag
14 Weems String Band – Greenback Dollar
15 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra – Kater Street Rag
16 King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – Sobbin’ Blues
17 Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopaters – Mojo Strut
18 Frankie Franko and his Louisianians – Somebody Stole My Gal
19 Clarence Williams’ Blue Five – Wild Cat Blues
20 Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers – Kansas City Stomps
21 Jimmy Noone – King Joe
