Inexplicable Album Art
August 11th, 2008
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I was listening to a podcast about Folkways records this afternoon and it reminded me of an album I was fascinated by as an adolescent. It’s one of a handful of records that remain from my father’s record collection. The music was recorded in the mid 1950s and the record itself is heavier and thicker than most LPs I’ve handled.
What fascinated me then, and now though for different reasons, was the cover art.
Puzzling ideas of Cape Breton
I can get my head around the idea of a a naked, music-playing dude in Cape Breton. But my mind still boggles at the antelope, and the tree.
You can listen to samples of the creaky old folks singing work songs here.
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