Sammie album art work plus#

Below are all 12 studio Van Halen album covers, both live album covers, and the two compilation album covers.

Whether it was photography based or illustrated, they (almost) always brought artistic value to the table when releasing an album. Van Halen album covers were always a sight to behold.

Sammie album art work plus#

Because sometimes the things you donвЂ™t know make for the best art.The Van Halen Album Covers in order, plus the VH Logo, band, and cover art Who the girl is, and the other particulars, I prefer they remain a mystery. IвЂ™ll take the suggestion of Sammy Brue from the cover and call it good. вЂњIt was all idea,вЂќ Wilkins says.Д«ut I think I know enough. Joshua Black Wilkins didnвЂ™t have much more insight into the cover concept either.

вЂњJustin grew up playing there,вЂќ Sammy Brue tells me, which is further validation towards my initial theory that Sammy is supposed to represent a younger Justin Townes Earle, who grew up with a single mother after Steve Earle left the home.ДЄs for who the girl is, вЂњI only met that girl the one time,вЂќ Sammy says. The Single Mothers cover was shot in Dragon Park in Nashville, which is park of Fannie Mae Dees Park in the cityвЂ™s southwest portion. Sammy Brue has just released an EP through NoiseTrade of all original songs and is working on a second one, and will be performing at the Americana Music Conference coming up this week. HeвЂ™s also written over a dozen original songs. His father bought him a guitar for Christmas in 2011 after the family moved to Utah to keep him occupied, and he wrote his first song at the age of ten called вЂњThe Woody Guthrie Song.вЂќ Since then heвЂ™s learned material from legends such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, and more contemporary like Justin Townes Earle and Gillian Welch. Just in the last couple of years, Sammy Brue has opened for Asleep At The Wheel, Hayes Carll, John Moreland, and Lukas Nelson to name a few.

Sammy is originally from Portland, OR, and in his very short career has already made friends with Justin Townes Earle, Joshua Black Wilkins (who was also the photographer who shot the cover, and Justin Townes EarleвЂ™s other covers), and many other songwriters of the wider country and Americana communities. Sammy Brue is the 13-year-old songwriter whose defiant gaze and long locks reaching out beneath a wide-brimmed black hat landed on the cover of Single Mothers. Generally speaking, younger artists just donвЂ™t have the type of bevy of experiences to pull from to enthrall the listener with compelling sentiments, and they just donвЂ™t have the cognitive capacity to understand the subtly and nuance necessary to engage an audience in true storytelling. It is rare to find a prodigy whose passion is songwriting, and even more rare to find a young songwriter who can garner acceptance and notoriety from the established music world at such a young age. Prodigies in the music world usually come in the form of instrumentalists, like Amanda Shires. ThereвЂ™s a girl on the cover yet again, holding the hand of the male protagonist, but thatвЂ™s not Justin Townes Earle. But Justin Townes Earle broke from this tradition on his latest record Single Mothers and put someone else on the cover instead of himself. Subsequently every Justin Townes Earle album cover has featured Earle himself and a pretty woman somewhere in close vicinity to him, and just exactly who these pretty women are is part of the fun and mystery. That mysterious woman turned out to be fiddle player Amanda Shires, who as a young prodigy was once a member of Bob WillsвЂ™ legendary backing band The Texas Playboys, and is now known as Amanda Isbell, a renown solo artist and wife of Jason Isbell. вЂњWho is that mysterious woman hanging on the shoulder of Steve EarleвЂ™s son?вЂќ That is the question some were asking when Justin Townes Earle released his first LP called The Good Life in 2008.