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Bands: Outlaws; Stanky Brown
Venue: On The Boardwalk at Asbury Park,
Convention Hall
Date: May 28, 1978
Quality: Uncirculated program, LP,
Poster; Cover art for program and Record Album.
Comments: You’ll see this outlaw
in quite a few program covers as we wander through the years
but we didn’t see nearly enough of Stanky Brown. The
color image is Stanky Brown’s first record album,
courtesy of Churchmouse. I designed and drew the cover which
was then colored by Susan Greco. That’s me, first in line
for the free soup, and there’s a very practical reason
why I put “Misery Loves Company” into the artwork.
Record jackets were typically designed
before the actual recording sessions had been completed, so the
cover artist didn’t really know what tunes would make the
final cut. “Misery Loves Company” was one of my
favorites, but was one of two tunes that the producers were
planning to leave out. So I tipped the scales by placing the
words “Misery Loves Co.” on the storefront window
in the cover art. There’s always more going on than meets
the eye. If you click on the album jacket above, you can see
larger images of the actual artwork.
The artist who created the 19" x
28" poster at right is unknown to me, but this was my
inspiration for the soup kitchen approach to the record jacket.