How Great is Folkways Cover Art ?!

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― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i worked at folkways! yes the cover art is often amazing from a design perspective. i have a few covers on my wall, for some really random/rare LPs like "a study in infant speech development"--they are gorgeous.

most were the work of this one guy, something clyne or something. i tried to find some info on him in the folkways archive but had little luck. i actually think someone should make a coffee table book out of his cover designs.

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

those cd covers are obviously designed by somebody else (actually they have both an in-house design team and a series of people they regularly contract work out to), but they have mostly kept up the high standard of design. the earliest folkways cds weren't so attractive (though much better than, say, arhoolie) but the newer stuff is often gorgeous.

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

those two roscoe holcomb cds are all-around classy: aside from the lovely covers, the liner notes by john cohen are brilliant, the best i think i've ever read. and of course the music is stunning. see also cohen's "mountain music of kentucky" collection.

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't find images of some of my favorites (old woody guthrie and leadbelly 78s where the cover art probably isn't on any CD release). The Elizabeth Cotten one at the top follows a folkways formula (but a good one) that I like a lot, with a thick bar of an odd color above a black and white photo.

You worked there? I am jealous. What did you do?

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i was an intern in the archives and worked for the folklife festival doing volunteer coordination and field recording.

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link

wait. amateurist, when did you work there? i was an intern there summer 2003.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

A friend of mine, Lorelyn Hall, worked there a couple times. Maybe you know each other.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link

You know Lauryn Hill?!

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, and she's really humble too -- God knows she doesn't need that internship.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

She's keeping it real.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

True to her roots music.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link

wait. amateurist, when did you work there? i was an intern there summer 2003.

-- peter smith (reesewitherspoo...), November 8th, 2004.

summer 1998

― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I forget who posted this before (and on what thread), but this cover alone is probably worth the cost of the CD:

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― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Highlights of Vortex

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

what i have on my wall

― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

That indonesian music cover is hands down the best I've ever seen.

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This one looks like a new wave cover:
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― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Self-Liberation from Test Anxiety

― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Gosh they are so darn helpful.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link

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― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

in the liner notes to "self-liberation from test anxiety" dr. wallace sife writes of his experience being knocked unconscious by one of his students in a high school in the bronx.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I lived in Indonesia for a year, and saw many pictures of Indonesian rock stars that looked just like the guy on that cover. I remember especially one guy named Ikang Fawzy who wore some pretty amazing get-ups. Unfortunately I can't seem to find any pictures of him on the web.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

omg

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― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I am not convinced that the entire existence of this person is not just an elaborate joke.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Re: The Indonesian cover, I have often struggled, in between laughs, with what exactly that guy is DOING.

He's sort of flying at you with the guitar in one hand, but his other hand is raised in a karate chop-like position. Is he going to fly at me and then karate chop me, or his he going to do a karate chop windmill chord on the guitar?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

http://grainedit.com/2010/03/15/ronald-clyne-at-folkways/

― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 15 May 2010 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link

bought it. it's a beautiful booklet, reproductions of tons of clyne covers.

― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 23 May 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761593122/banjo-player-folklorist-photographer-and-filmmaker-john-cohen-has-died

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link

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