Robert Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders [Import]

Robert Crumb, R.crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 2, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Airmail
• ASIN: B00008Y4CS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #584,156 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Laughing Rag

2. True Blue Lou

3. Little Rascals Medley

4. Willie The Chimney Sweeper

5. Kiwi Bump

6. Cuckoo Waltz

7. Sweet Lorraine

8. I'm Gonna Get It

9. Lucille

10. I Had But Fifty Cents

11. Down In Jungle Town

12. Get A Load Of Thise

13. Cheap Suit Special

14. I'll See You In My Dreams

Editorial Reviews

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Hot Tunes - Ballads, Blues, Waltzes, Old Standards", July 10, 2007

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This review is from: Robert Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders (Audio CD)

Robert Crumb, Allan Dodge and Robert Armstrong, inspired by collections of 1920s jazz 78s, decided at the height of post-hippie electric madness to form an anachronistic acoustic band. Banjo, mandolins, saw, accordian, and assorted violins and brass make a sound not quite ragtime, not really bluegrass, just as loosely related to Hawaiian and klezmer but transcendent: sweet, sentimental, sometimes spooky.

The punch line is that unlike many of their rock contemporaries, these aren't dilettantes, but real musicians. On this album, aided by Richard Oxtot and Paul Woltz, the Serenaders recreate a time and place that may never have existed except in their fevered imaginations. Standards, lost gems, and a few original compositions, all rendered with an indefinably odd sensibility, still delight and confound thirty-five years later. (I saw this band play a wedding in the late '70s, and a happier bunch of dancing celebrants I haven't seen since.)