The set features four-color images printed on one side, with corresponding bios of the musicians on the other, packaged in full-color boxes, 3″ x 4″ x 1″, on heavy cardstock.
Featuring 40 card images, sets are sealed, new and mint.
This country card set was released in 2005 by publisher Dennis Kitchen. The cards are unique and informative tributes to the cream of the genre’s seminal practitioners, each artist wonderfully rendered with nobility and grace in full color by legendary cartoonist R. Crumb, himself an early American Music devotee.
Bigger than its counterparts at 40 cards, the Pioneers of Country Music set leads with Country/Folk/Bluegrass heavy-hitters Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family.
But aside from their pedigrees and musical virtuousity, these great ensembles had some of the greatest band names ever. Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, The Happy Hayseeds, Hoyt Ming and his Pep Steppers, the Buckle Busters, Log Rollers, Tar Heel Rattlers, Fox Chasers and Possum Hunters to name but a few. Richard Nevins’ cardback bios contain fascinating detail about each performer’s place in history, with as much detail about each performer’s recording history. There’s not much space, but he manages to note record labels and “firsts” for performers. There is lots of fun buried in this treasure chest of arcane country lore.