In an extremely delayed response:

Thanks for this Stewie. A lot of good info. here. Someone just recently gave me a copy of some of the R. Crumb Cheap Suit Serenader stuff. I'd like to check out some of the CD's you mentioned, though.

There's the great Yank Rachell recording that I'm familiar with on Blue Goose (don't even know if the LP re-surfaced on CD) and my LP got --depressingly-- slightly melted. He did a few excellent numbers on mando on that, "Texas Tony," and "Shotgun Blues," as well as a bunch of stuff on guitar: "Matchbox blues," etc.

I recall some quote from Cooder saying that when he tried to hang out with Yank Rachell (who's influence on Cooder, to me, is clear as a bell), Rachell --who worked a full-time day job-- was always too tired to stick around after playing to talk or chill with him.


Mr. Jeefer