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Appreciating album cover art in an age of downloads


You can’t judge a book by its cover, but it sure is tempting. A record, well, go right ahead and judge.
The incorrigible rock critic Richard Meltzer used to write record reviews for rock ‘n’ roll rags without even taking the shrink-wrap off the jacket. He’d simply gaze into the cover image and glean all the information he felt he needed to know.
“Time was when Atlantic was the real trailblazer in album cover art (remember Hank Crawford’s “Soul Clinic”?),” he once typed, kicking off a Rolling Stone review of some forgotten supergroup. “But this one, sheesh!”
[SFGate.com via rockcriticsdaily]

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