Showing posts with label 1920's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920's. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2020

McKinney's Cotton Pickers


McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Released in 1957 on ten inch vinyl. It's Big Band Jazz from the 1920's. Found  while digging through bins of old Jazz recordings. 

Feels like I'm watching history pass by. 

I love the cover art. Probably would have just kept digging right on by it had I not taken notice of the cover. Cover Art matters!!!

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Book Time

A great book to spend an hour or two browsing through. R. Crumb's, "The Complete Record Cover Collection." Full of his drawings and graphics for various record covers, mostly of old Blues, Country and Jazz recordings from the 1920's and 30's. Many obscure musicians and recordings. It's fascinating pausing and lingering for a moment or two, over each illustration before turning the page and discovering what's next. It causes me to want to search out each and every record.

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An example of one of the many unique, imaginative and colorful images that fill the pages of this book. I've never heard of any of the musicians on this record but would happily give it a listen and add to my record collection based on the cover art alone.








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