![]() ![]() ![]() Hope (Dead Reckoning) and, by their bass singer Isaac Freeman, Beautiful Stars (Lost Highway). Billed on the label as "Protozoa," a name assigned by the label, the tracks, written as parodies of then popular "bubblegum music," were "Ring Around My Rosie" and "Pink Hippopotamus." Zolten was instrumental in resurrecting the career of the Grammy-winning Fairfield Four, producing two CDs, Wreckin' the House/Live at Mt. The Wooley Thumpers also recorded a single in 1969 for Buddah Records. With the group and as a single, Zolten performed at diverse venues such as the Jawbone Coffeehouse, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, and Lewisburg Penitentary. The Wooley Thumpers opened for Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company at a 1968 Penn State performance. He performed in numerous musical groups, most notably a jug band, the New Old Time Wooley Thumpers. His most recent writings and musical releases include "The Beatles as Recording Artists" in The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, biographical and musicological entries on Paramount recording artists for The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1927, and Chimpin' the Blues with Robert Crumb and Jerry Zolten, an audio collection of conversation and rare blues and blues related recordings from the early 20th Century.Īs an undergraduate at Penn State, Zolten was president of the Penn State Folklore Society. Zolten is also known for numerous articles and CD liner notes on blues, country, and gospel music as well as collaborations on musical projects with Robert Crumb and Harvey Pekar. He also writes about and is a noted expert on the history of American stand-up comedy. An Associate Professor at Penn State University, he is best known as the author of a book tracing the 30-plus year career of the African-American Dixie Hummingbirds gospel group and their influence on both sacred and secular music. Jerry Zolten is an educator, author, musician, CD & radio producer, and speaker in the realm of American Roots Music and Popular Culture. "The blues is about life, the human experience down into all it’s cracks and crevices, the stuff that connects us all no matter the distance of time, place, culture." ![]()
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