Cover Me - Home Made Folk Art

by Joe Schwab

Like the guy that trips on a curb and accidentally dips his chocolate bar into another guys peanut butter jar, this post is my Reese's moment.
I love records and I love folk art. The book by Dori Hadar on the albums and career of Mingering Mike (yes, that book is in stock at Euclid)is fascinating, beautiful, amusing and mildly disturbing all at the same time.

Anyway, on to my find. I've bought a lot of collections over the years, so I'm not too sure which collection these came from, but these home made LP covers depicting the actual albums by Sarah Vaughan and Teddy Wilson could only have been done as replacements for water damaged covers. From experience, I've found more water damaged records are from artists whose last name starts with the letters T thru Z. The end of the alphabet and the bottom shelf in a basement. So here are folk art versions of 4 older Columbia Jazz records, three by Sarah Vaughan and one by Teddy Wilson, followed by the originals. I think I have more of covers by the same artist, and I'll post them on a future blog as I dig them up.