Roosevelt Holts and his friends album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: folkways-media.si.edu Folkways Records. License: All Rights Reserved.

Arhoolie Records released this blues compilation in 1972, with songs by Roosevelt Holts and his friends, namely Boogie Bill Webb, Eli Owens, Blind Pete Burrell, and Esau Weary. Of the eleven tracks, all but one were recorded August 1970, in Bogalusa, Clifton, and New Orleans.

The cover design is by Wayne Pope, with photography and liner notes by David Evans. The top-heavy typeface he picked for the title is Secession, which originated around 1900 at the Scholz foundry in Vienna. This provenience shines through in the capital H – it uses the enlarged lowercase form with top bar as found in blackletter typefaces.

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Source: folkways-media.si.edu Folkways Records. License: All Rights Reserved.

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