Secret Country, To Heck with Ole Santa Claus!

 If there's anything I love more than doing art for Secret Country, it's doing another Secret Country Christmas single! This year, Kearny's finest has given us a cover of Loretta Lynn's ass-kickin' 1966 anti-carol, "To Heck with Ole Santa Claus!" Go give it a spin (if you can call streaming something online "spinning." 

Secret Country, Under the Mistletoe 7"

 I've done more artwork for Kearny NJ's Secret Country than any other band, but this latest work might be my favorite I've done for them. "Under the Mistletoe" is their new holiday single for 2020, including a VERY limited edition vinyl pressing. You can listen / buy on Bandcamp or snag the single at the Killing Horse Records' website! 

Also pictured here is an alternate version of the title lettering. 

Secret Country, Hard White Snow 7" Cover

I've done a lot of work for the band, Secret Country, including this 2010 Christmas single.  

Tough Guy Christmas CDs

From 2000 through 2015 (missing three years), I made Christmas CD compilations to give to friends. Each of these discs was lovingly curated, not just the music, but full packaging including art and liner notes. Pictured below are the front and inside covers and inlay cards for five of these compilations. Bowing to extreme subjectivity not just with the music, but with my choices of artwork, they include some esthetic choices that my not ring as overly Christmassy with some of you, but hey, worked for me. In retrospect, I probably should not have chosen the naked lady being dragged by Santa's leg, regardless of how much I enjoy that particular photo (which was a house ad for Playboy Magazine in the 1970s), but hey, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is pretty sexist, and that thing still airs every year! 

A Charlie Brown Christmas DVD Redux

 This mocked-up DVD cover was done to accompany a piece I wrote in 2004 lamenting the lack of a decent home video version of A Charlie Brown Christmas (something which STILL HASN'T HAPPENED SIXTEEN YEARS LATER!).