The blues. Born in the Mississippi Delta and universally recognized as among the great contributions of twentieth-century American culture, this groundbreaking musical form has become one of the most popular and beloved in the world. The Blues: Album Cover Art features nearly 250 of the coolest blues album covers from the '50s and '60s, showcasing some of the greatest musical luminaries of our time-including Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Bessie Smith, and Muddy Waters, among others. A memorable visual compendium for both music and design lovers, this engaging volume captures all the triumph, magnitude, and spirit of a legendary musical genre.
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Graham Marsh is a London-based magazine art director, illustrator, and journalist. He is the coauthor of three related Chronicle Books titles, New York Hot: East Coast Jazz of the 50s and 60s , and The Blues: Album Cover Art .
Barrie Lewis has been collecting blues albums for over 30 years.
Barrie Lewis has been collecting blues albums for over 30 years.
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Overall decent cover art,
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There are a lot of good covers here but overall I am not that impressed. It seems like the author included a lot of covers that I would consider, just very different and excluded a lot of classics. Odd.
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