We started to plan and in my case sketch out some album cover ideas. We took our initial inspiration from Jonathan Wilson's 'Fanfare' and Daughn Gibson's 'Me Moan'. These albums had the necessary elements of Americana to define them as country, such as blue sky, white clouds and churches whilst giving the impression that both the artists and their listeners are loners and outcasts by being quite dark and aged looking as well as featuring naked women and references to drug usage through the way that the pictures are often blurred, distorted or in lurid colours.
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| Original Cover Design Sketches |
The aged look creates a sense of nostalgia prevalent in Americana music which will attract a large quantity of our target audience, as a large quantity of our target audience is aged and will be able to relate to low quality cameras and photographs sometimes developing a bit wrong, on the album however, this will most likely be done in Photoshop in order to make it look more authentic and original, produced independently and a bit DIY as opposed to backed by buckets of record label money.
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| The Coffee Pot/Diner Idea |
By using elements of these various album covers (though sadly no nudity, this being a school and everything), we can convey that our artist is of the more sophisticated country variety, rather than the Taylor Swift 'Pop Country' or the more banal 'Bumpkin Country' where the singer tells us about the cow he bought at the market, or was it his wife?
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| Our 'Open Road' Idea |
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