Of course everybody’s familiar with Jimmy Buffett’s hit “Margaritaville” and the commercialized persona and empire he’s created from that song and a multitude of other songs extolling the virtues of the tropics and the “easy life”. Well before he hit gold, though, Buffett was a struggling folk artist in Nashville who recorded two albums with…
Category: Art on the wall
Album art – Steve Hackett’s “Genesis Revisited II”
From the website Genesis News, comes the below story of the photo adorning the new “Genesis Revisited II” album by Steve Hackett. You’ll recall that Hackett was Genesis’ guitarist from 1971 to 1977 – their “prog” heyday (Peter Gabriel dressed as a flower or wearing a fox’s head, Phil Collins with long hair and a…
Halloweeny
My three favorite spooky creepy halloweeny album covers: ANY CHARACTER HERE Black Sabbath’s first album, from 1970, has a cover shot taken at an old mill in England by Marcus Keef (photographer of many 1960’s/1970’s album covers). The infrared film that was used creates a very surreal, otherworldy aura, heightened by the autumnal-wintry landscape. The…
Hippie menu
I’m currently reading “Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960’s”, by Stuart Henderson (Yorkville was Canada’s Haight-Ashbury). In the book is a photo of this entertaining 1968 menu from The Penny Farthing, a long since extinct coffeehouse:
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