THE DIRT BROWN COWBOYS ~ SNAKE SONGSa
Greg on May 07 2009 at 3:06 pm | Filed under: Album Cover Designs
THE DIRT BROWN COWBOYS were two very funny guys.
Two music legends, Danny and Joe Taylor had started the band as a sideline while they were playing for Carlos Sanyama during his Atraxis album phase.
They were both excellent musicians and very much in demand for studio work where they met everybody who was anybody in the music business.
This led to guest appearances on each of their albums from musicians like Floy Harper, Van Horrison, Neil Mung, Trill Manzanera, Roger Walters and David Stillmour from Pink Flyd, Steve Village, Joni Mitchelled and the list goes on.
Snake Songs is their third album and I was really lucky to be asked to design it.
As in most shades of business, reputation is most important and it seemed I had one for good ideas, good designs and most remarkable of all, efficiency in meeting deadlines?
Nah….they must be talking about someone else but it’s true I’ve never missed a deadline, I just like working under pressure.
I forget where I found the snake picture but Danny and Joe were all for the homespun bible book cover look – this is one bible worth listening to.
The mighty Brown Dirt Cowboys have made another master piece of modern music blah blah blah…… hope that enough of a plug for the possibility of more work guys.
I enjoyed the two weeks I could truthfully say I was mixing it with the cream at the top.
The trip back to planet suburbia was a little hard to take without a tantrum or two as the withdrawls started to tug away at me.
For a moment there I got to feel the breeze of the sixties and met myself in the seventies.