Earlier this week, we featured WNW Member Michael Carney and his design work with The Black Keys and a range of other artists both classic and contemporary. Given his work in the music industry, we figured we'd hit him up for a list of albums we should go check out immediately. Below, we present some songs from those albums, in no particular order. There are some Black Keys tunes off of their LP Brothers and EP Chulahoma, two of the many albums whose covers showcase Carney's craft. There's also some Captain Beefheart that's more washed in blues than acid, some avant-garde Eno, as well as an offering of The Cramps, Serge Gainsbourg, and everything in between.
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You've undoubtedly encountered his album artwork for some of rock music's most notable acts, both classic and contemporary. We talk to Carney below about his creative journey from his background in Akron to his current design practice in Nashville. He gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his early start designing album covers, posters, t-shirts, and flyers for his brother Patrick's band The Black Keys, and how that culminated in a Grammy for his work on their 2011 album Brothers.
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