Book Covers

In 1987, a publisher asked me to illustrate the cover of Bruce’s first collection of the annotation of his songs.

The photo shoot was done in 1998 shortly before John Lee passed. A few years later, in 2000, a book publisher approached me to use one of the images for the cover of  Charles  Shaar  Murray’s book.

In the summer of 2001, I was introduced to Robert Gordon at the Chicago Blues Festival. He asked if by chance I had any good pictures of Muddy Waters, which of course I did! I sent him some and here is the result.

This photograph is the gift that keeps on giving! Shot in 1982, It continues to be licensed to illustrate most projects involving Randy Rhoads. This book came out in 2011.

In January of 2011, I introduced Davis Ritz to Buddy, and David proposed that he and Buddy write Buddy’s life story. After the deal was made, David interviewed Buddy over the summer, and I was asked to photograph Buddy for the cover. The book came out in early 2012.

In 2013, The University of Chicago Press saw my picture of Keith and thought it would be the perfect illustration for the cover of a compilation of interviews. I think so too!

In 2013, a publisher licensed a photograph that I had taken in Athens, Georgia in 1985 for the cover of a biography.

In the early 2000’s, my friend Laura moved to Minneapolis and soon caught the “Prince bug.” She met a like minded Prince fan and they decided to write a biography of the Purple one. She remembered that I had a lot of good photographs and the result is shown here.