Album Art

The stereo rack sits in the corner of the living room. Above it in the corner are two framed album covers. In this picture, it's Kim Richie's Rise and The Honeydogs' Love and Cannibalism. They worked together because the colors are similar and they are both collage designs. The selections change frequently. Usually there's a theme.

Like highways. That's the back cover of Jimmy Buffet's A1A and Tower of Power's Back to Oakland. 

Or Blue. Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue and Joni Mitchell's Blue.

Or love. Stacy Kent's In Love Again and Nat King Cole's Love Is the Thing.

Or paintings with animals. Dylan's painting from the cover of The Band's Music From Big Pink and Calexico with Iron and Wine's In The Reins. 

Here's Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon with Billy Cobham's Spectrum. 

These two work nicely with the color of the wall. Donovan's Barabajagal and Ten Years After's Cricklewood Green. They are both from the same time period, and they are great records.

OK, breasts. I don't think these stayed up all that log. The Rondstadt is my favorite of her records, and the Marilyn Monroe is better than you'd think. It includes her famous Happy Birthday, Mr. President as well as songs she sang in movies, such as Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. The cover is the gatefold picture she did for Playboy magazine. I'm guessing it sold well.

And then there's the Christmas season. I don't own all that many holiday records, but I have these two combos that I rotate year-to-year.

John Fahey's Christmas Guitar is a very lovely record. The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra's Nutcracker is a classic recording, and good, but there are better versions of the material. Perfect cover though.

Diana Krall's Christmas Songs and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings' It's A Holiday Soul Party. Both are fun holiday covers, and also happen to be fabulous music.

And there we have it. There's a bunch of combos I didn't remember when I was taking the pictures, so maybe I'll return to this later, or I'll do it when I'm discussing two different records. If I leave anything up too long, the director of home decor keeps me updating fairly regularly.