Album Covers
Crumb has illustrated many album covers, including most prominently Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company and the compilation album The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead.
Between 1974 and 1984, Crumb drew at least 17 album covers for Yazoo Records/Blue Goose Records, including those of the Cheap Suit Serenaders. He also created the revised logo and record label designs of Blue Goose Records that were used from 1974 onward.
In 1992 and 1993, Robert Crumb was involved in a project by a Dutch formation, The Beau Hunks, and for both their albums "The Beau Hunks play the original Laurel & Hardy music" (1 & 2), he was the album cover illustrator, as well as for the albums' booklets.
Also in 2009, he drew the artwork for a 10-CD anthology of French traditional music (compiled by Guillaume Veillet for Frémeaux & Associés).
In 2010 he drew three artworks for Christopher King's "Aimer Et Perdre: To Love And To Lose Songs, 1917-1934" released on CD on Tompkins Square in 2012.
In 2011 he drew his third album cover for Eden and John's East River String Band "Be Kind To A Man When He's Down", on which he also plays mandolin.
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