With new liner notes from Scott Saul, author of Becoming Richard Pryor, and restoration from Grammy®-winner, Michael Graves, Richard Pryor is ready to start a comedy to start a comedy revolution. Richard Pryor covers a lot of ground during his show. Richard Pryor Craps was recorded in December 1970. Craps is Pryor’s second comedy album after the eponymous Richard Pryor.

Richard Pryor’s original 8 tracks make up disc one of this new edition, while the second disc contains 21 tracks from the out-of-print Evolution/Revolution: The Early Years (1966-1974) collection-originally compiled by producers Reggie Collins and Steve Pokorny, the former of whom helms this new set along with Jennifer Lee Pryor and Grammy®-winning producer, Cheryl Pawelski. In addition, Richard Pryor Craps on Omnivore Recordings includes a 10-page booklet giving you the background and history of this classic comedy album. Pryor wanted to not only change comedy, but how we look at ourselves and those around us. But it wasn’t just his love of artistic freedom that pulled him toward what many looked at as defiance. He’d already become a regular on The Merv Griffin Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, and was signed to the same agency that handled The Beatles and The Supremes. Burden thought 'roots' for Pryor would be some kind of tribal or African thing, so he got authentic African artifacts and weapons that fit the idea of a 'tribal bushman'. Pryor was at a career crossroads that year, when the earliest tracks for the release were recorded at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. Gary Burden, who designed the album cover, said Pryor wanted to do something 'kind of Roots-y' for the cover. Originally released in 1968, Richard Pryor’s cover art (shot by legendary photographer Henry Diltz) should have been enough to let the buyer know this was not your average comedy release.

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