Crabmeat Thompson

CRABMEAT THOMPSON received a 2007 Fellowship from the Delaware State Arts Council as a folk musician, but he plays many styles of music and has recorded gobs of sui generis material with titles like ?You're the Reason God Made Alcohol? and ?Poodles from Hell.? Crabmeat has shared a stage with Jim McGiffin of the Dover, DE, City Council; Richie Havens, Roscoe the Wonder Horse, The Pointer Sisters, Kate Wolfe, Ramblin' Jack Eliot, Tiny Tim, John Sebastian, Steve Forbert, and the poet Charles Bukowski, among others. For ten years he wrote an award-winning column for Out & About magazine.

In the 1980's Crab did little but play music and travel, fronting a swing band in Montana, playing to rowdy crowds from Sloppy Joe's in Key West to the Starboard in Dewey Beach. Thompson was invited to the Knoxville World's fair and went as Delaware's ?exhibit,? courtesy of the newly-formed Tourism Bureau, for whom he penned ?Small Wonder.? Shortly thereafter the Meat was part of the fledging environmental campaign of the Inland Bays Committee, and drew and published a coloring book Stretch saves the Inland Bays, which inspired his next tune ?Save the Bays.? For a year thereafter, ?Crabmeat, Pedro, and Junior? toured schools, playing music and passing on an environmental message and 10,000 coloring books.
Last August Crab traveled to Nashville and to Birmingham, Alabama, where his song ?One Ton Tomato? is a theme song for the ?Home Grown Tomatoes? radio show. The Thompsons wintered on Chokoloskee Island in the Everglades. Since returning north in the spring, Crab has performed for the Philadelphia Songwriters Project and at schools, fairs, and parks in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. His music has played on Dr. Demento, WSTW, WVUD, and elsewhere,
CRAB teaches English at Delaware County Community College in Jennersville, PA, and at Polk Community College in Lakeland, Florida. He also teaches English short-courses in Spain, for Vaughan Language Systems in the Gredos mountains west of Madrid.