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some forerunners
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Woody Guthrie |
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selective highlights of jacket art
Whatever the gains in acustic quality when the compact disc supplanted the vinyl record, the change incurred the loss of an art form. The jacket of records attracted a good many artists; its size alone was an incentive (more so, certainly, than CD covers). The late flourish was often inspired by the road and came to a startling diversity. click image to enlarge |
| Bruce Springsteen Nebraska cover by Andrea Klein, |
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| Grateful Dead Shakedown Street cover by Gilbert Shelton |
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| Little Feat Feats Don't Fail Me Now cover by Neon Parks George Washington and Marilyn Monroe in a car, on a treacherous mountain road, about to be struck by lightning . . . |
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| Jackson Browne Running on Empty cover by Jimmy Wachtel, |
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| Ry Cooder Into the Purple Valley (cover artist/s not mentioned on the jacket) |
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| Lynyrd Skynyrd One More For/From The Road cover by Sandy Okuma |
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| Steve Earle & The Dukes Exit 0 cover by Mickey Braithwaite, |
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| Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters cover by |
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