Interviews with Aardvark Letterpress, John Dyer Baizley, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings about the making of the letterpressed album cover insert for The Harrow & The Harvest, the new 2011 Gillian Welch album.
It's a beautiful thing to see so much care go into the making of an album cover. It shows due respect to the music it contains, for the artists involved and for the craftspeople who get to share their craft with a wider audience. Wonderful stuff!
The cover is really beautiful as is the album. Nice to see so much attention to detail for the physical side of the product. Long live the Physical Side of the Product!!! Wonderful that they made this film to share it with everyone.
glad I watched this, made me pull the insert out of the CD case to have a closer look...nice job ! I'm keepin the insert out to display it as the artwork it is and since I've worked with fiber, paper and wood all my life, I can see that coffee / tea stain on this would make a difference. So, in the spirit of art and play I'll be dunking mine one of these days. reminds me of when art on album covers was a really cool part of music
An absolutely fantastic album with a brilliant cover. Wonderful to see the process of how the cover came to be. Someone recommended the album to me a while back. Listened to it on Spotify then went and bought the CD which came with two copies of the cover. The whole thing is just a wonderful work of art.
THANK YOU for this video. I was curious how this stunning image came about. And I only listen to MP3's. In the late 90's, I used to put them on CD's that held 8 hours of music. Today, it's all digital. The price I pay? The loss of the album art! But I'll survive, with 7 days of music on my phone, with more on the computer.
As I only have the digital copy of this, i was really interested. Can't wait for all these records to be released on vinyl! what covers they will be then.
I clicked on this video thinking they would have some silly explanation of why chose this design. I’m disappointed they didn’t. I was hoping I was wrong