This column is dedicated to the memory of my friend and colleague, Matthew Africa. Our initial journey is documented in several columns, the first being what you're reading now (part 2 is here). Then, having mapped out a preliminary itinerary, I asked my friend and photographer Bobby Chakrabarti to join me and we hit the road. Then I started chasing down the photographers and the artists to help fill in blanks in the back stories. We hope that readers like you will contribute other ideas to start the hunt anew.įor this initial round, I began with a master list of albums, trying to balance genre, era and rumored locales. The album locations I chased down represent only the tippy top of the proverbial iceberg. I simply started with some of my favorite L.A.-centric album covers and then queried a few music junkie friends to expand the pool.
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I didn't have a precise methodology about how to go about doing this. Even the handful of covers I started with led me on a treasure hunt across all kinds of tucked away neighborhoods of the Southland. So many different locations and time eras are captured in the LP art from the city. Yet, when I embarked on this research, I had no idea how deep the well ran. Given that L.A., along with New York City, was one of the two main hubs of the recording industry in the U.S., it's no surprise that many album covers were shot here. That initially lead me to the Brent Rollins and Slick columns but it also seemed like the covers themselves told a particular story of L.A. The genesis of this idea came when Artbound managing editor Drew Tewksbury and I were batting around ways to bring my deep (read: obsessive) love of records into ArtBound and he threw out suggestions about using album art as a point of entry.
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