Tobacco-Related Covers, Briefly Revisited Every once in a long while I am very pleasantly surprised by the music on an album I purchased solely for the jacket art. A prime example is the Tufano-Giammarese album pictured. If you read my previous article about tobacco-related album jacket art, then you know…

My dad and my grandfathers smoked a lot of cigars and pipe tobacco during my youth, so tobacco artwork was something I noticed as a kid, especially because I stored my many small treasures in their empty cigar boxes. Over the years I have seen a number of articles highlighting…

While technology has put music at our fingertips, retrievable right from our cellphones, I can’t help but think that we’ve lost something creative along the way. Consider a partial history of recorded music – from 78 rpm records in plain brown sleeves containing no art (with the obvious focus on…