A friend had a lover who did album covers, an off shoot of his photography interests in the dead of night in LA. I liked both of them. I've still got one of his prints, and so what, but that I still like it and it is a memory connection.
Pure Prairie League also had an excellent line of album covers featuring the band’s “Luke” character.
That was part of the thing. That’s not in small part due to the fact that our original art director at RCA, Acey Lehman, when he heard the name of the band he said, “I’ve got the perfect idea for an album cover” and contacted Norman Rockwell who was a friend of his, and the Saturday Evening Post. All of a sudden we were a brand before the term was ever popularized. And it served us very well in the 45 years.
Bruce Langhorne was a side man in the Village back in the day. He was the go to guitar player on numerous folk recordings. Sadly he's in hospice awaiting the day.
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One day in 1963, multi-instrumentalist Bruce Langhorne brought a Turkish frame drum to a recording session with Bob Dylan at the Columbia Recording Studio in New York City. The instrument didn’t make it onto the album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, but it made a big impression on Dylan, who was starting to write his own songs.
“He had this gigantic tambourine,” wrote Dylan in the liner notes to Biograph, identifying Langhorne as the inspiration for “Mr. Tambourine Man,” which he initially wrote for Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) but released on Bringing It All Back Home (1965). “It was, like, really big. It was as big as a wagon wheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind.”
