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SELECTED BYALLAN CHOCHINOVBLUE, JONI MITCHELLPHOTOGRAPHED BYTIM CONSIDINEDESIGNED BYGARY BURDEN
Gary Burden designed so many iconic record covers—for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Doors to the Eagles and Jackson Browne. But Joni Mitchell’s Blue (cover photo by Tim Considine) is the one that speaks most personally to me. I wouldn’t say that growing up in Canada I took pride in listening to Joni; I didn’t have nationalistic listening habits. But Joni Mitchell was a huge influence on my guitar playing, and Blue was one of the most hauntingly beautiful records I owned.
As it turned out, a few years ago I was in Aspen, Colorado, for a design conference, and one of the evening activities was a book-launch party for Burden himself. All ...
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