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It Happened In Monterey: Blues Brothers Bob Hite and Elvin Bishop backstage at the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Monterey was the first big gig for lead singer Hite and his bandmates in Canned Heat, although they had performed their amplified country blues regularly at LA’s Ashgrove and Topanga Corral earlier in the year. Bishop had already tasted fame in the Paul Butterfield Blues band but at Monterey was without his guitar partner Mike Bloomfield who had formed The Electric Flag. Photograph by Pat Murphy

#Bob Hite #Canned Heat #Elvin Bishop #Paul Butterfield Blues Band #Blues #Monterey Pop Festival

Abstract Jazz: Atlantic Records Collage artwork for Coltrane Plays the Blues by Marty Norman. An album of tunes recorded in 1960 during the My Favorite Things sessions it was released two years later after John Coltrane left the label for Impulse.

The Year Was 1979 Los Angeles Times music critic Robert Hilburn, actress Adrienne Barbeau, and reggae legend Jimmy Cliff pick their favorite “records” for the April 1979 issue of Waxpaper. The legendary Warner Bros’ promotional music magazine is a time-capsule, treasure-trove of 70s music journalism.

#1970s #Robert Hilburn #Adrienne Barbeau #Jimmy Cliff

The Press Kit Cover: Airheads (1994) Directed by Michael Lehmann. Starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Amy Locane and Joe Mantegna.

#Airheads #Brendan Fraser #Steve Buscemi #Adam Sandler #Michael Lehmann #Film

Newport News: Skip James Skip James at a Newport Folk Festival afternoon workshop in 1964. Discovered in Tunica, Mississippi earlier the same year by blues nuts John Fahey, Henry Vestine and Bill Barth, the eccentric musician—who rarely performed and hadn’t recorded in over thirty years—was one of many country blues artists featured at the Festival. Also appearing were: Son House, Sleepy John Estes, Robert Pete Williams and Fred McDowell. Photograph by Rick Staehling

#Skip James #Newport Folk Festival #Blues

Rock Nightmares Double-page spread from Rock Dreams, a sombre visual history of popular music by Belgian artist Guy Peelaert and British rock critic/journalist Nik Cohn first published in 1974. Peelaert who went on to create album covers (Bowie, The Rolling Stones) and movie posters (Scorsese, Wenders, Altman) died in 2008 at the age of 74. Cohn is still alive and writing, although a drug trafficking charge and his admission years ago that be fabricated his famous story “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” still looms large on his résumé.

#Jim Morrison #Brian Jones #Janis Joplin #Jimi Hendrix #Rock Dreams #Guy Peelaert #Nik Cohn

Punk Rock Saturday Night Posters promoting the first two punk shows in Vancouver—both in 1977 at the Japanese Hall. The building, which still stands, was built in 1928 to accommodate the growing needs of the city’s Japanese Canadians and like most community halls rented by promoters in the punk era had a short run as a musical venue. The scene moved to the unsavory Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret following vandalism at an Avengers+DOA concert in early 1978.

#Punk Rock #Vancouver #DOA #The Furies #Japanese Hall

Capitol Records Presents Set of posters promoting Capitol Records’ pop/rock releases for March 1971. Forty years later only Leo Kottke remains active although the other three groups—The Move, Brinsley Schwartz and Goose Creek Symphony—certainly have their nostalgic supporters. The design is by the legendary John Van Hamersveld.

#The Move #Brinsley Schwartz #Leo Kottke #Goose Creek Symphony #Design #Advertising

Focus On Folk Dave Gahr, without a camera to his eye, at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. While his iconic photos of John Lennon, Janis Joplin and Bruce Springsteen are the most famous, it was Gahr’s tireless work covering the early ’60s folk music scene that produced the most impressive images in his 30-plus year career. Here are two: portraits of young Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, shot on location at Newport and originally published in The Little Sandy Review. Gahr photograph by Rick Staehling

#Dave Gahr #Joan Baez #Bob Dylan #Newport Folk Festival #Photography

The Press Kit Cover: Bowfinger (1999) Directed by Frank Oz. Starring Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Barry Newman, Terence Stamp and Robert Downey Jr.

#Bowfinger #Film #Steve Martin #Eddie Murphy

Love That Label: Dangerhouse Cover sleeves for X, The Weirdos, The Deadbeats and The Dils. All four bands were on Dangerhouse Records, a seminal punk music label in late ’70s Los Angeles and one of the few in the city that took cover art beyond the cliches of safety pin graphics and kidnap note typography.

#X #The Weirdos #The Deadbeats #The Dils #Punk Rock #Dangerhouse Records

Newport News John Sebastian and Bob Dylan (back to camera) warm up in a stairwell on the grounds of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival without attracting a crowd. A year later both performers would “go electric”—Sebastian with The Lovin’ Spoonful and “Do You Believe in Magic,” Dylan with “Like a Rolling Stone” and his sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited. Security increased. Photograph by Rick Staehling

#Bob Dylan #John Sebastian #Newport Folk Festival

From Universal Center spread of a pre-release promotional insert for Scarface starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia. The famous one-sheet for the 1983 film ditched the slab serif font and close-up seen here for a high contrast image of Pacino—a look that would be imitated 24 years later on the poster for American Gangster.

#Scarface #Al Pacino #Brian DePalma #Film

Essential Reading: TV Movies Edited by Leonard Maltin Published since 1969, and updated annually for the last 24 years, this guide to movies remains the gold standard for research, reference and readability. Like the late British film writer Leslie Halliwell—whose Filmgoer’s Companion is still in print—the indefatigable Maltin and his crew of editors are strictly old-school: rarely impressed by contemporary film fads and still offended by violence and coarse language. But their grasp of historical context and critical consistency is most welcome. The newer editions are called Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. Beware any film with a 2 1/2 star rating.

#Books #Film #Leonard Maltin

Play It Again: “Tulsa Time” Texan Don Williams sings his eighth number one hit on the country charts. Although the so-called “Gentle Giant” of country music started his career as a songwriter, this bluesy ode to rural rhythms (covered by Eric Clapton in 1978) was written by Danny Flowers.

#Country Music #Don Williams #Tulsa Time #Eric Clapton

The Boss Of The City Blues Print ad for Eric von Schmidt’s 1964 solo album. Von Schmidt’s guitar playing was deft and delicate, his voice rough. His artwork—he had won a Fulbright scholarship to study art in Florence and designed covers for Cisco Houston, John Renbourn and Reverend Gary Davis—was folksy but utterly modern. While a key player in the early days of the East Coast folk music scene he is largely forgotten except for Bob Dylan’s shout out to “Rick von Schmidt” on Dylan’s first album and the presence of The Folk Blues of Eric von Schimdt on the cover of his fifth.

#Folk Music #Eric von Schmidt #Bob Dylan

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