Casey James Album Cover Revealed!

By On 01/31/2012 · 63 Comments · In Casey James

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Check out the cover of Casey James’s self titled debut album, due out 3/20! Also check out new comments from Casey about the guitar playing on his album.

Brian Mansfield of USA Today interviewed Casey James about his debut album, and has the scoop on how much guitar playing you’ll hear from Casey on it. Casey says “I did all the lead work, I did slide work, and I did some acoustic work, but I had the privilege of working with unbelievable musicians.”

Among those musicians are Ilya Toshinsky and Pat Buchanan and Casey heaps praise on both of them saying Toshinsky’s “a master of his instrument. I couldn’t play that good if I practiced for a thousand years” while Buchanan “can play circles around me, but he allowed me to play. He has this way of adding so much without ever getting in the way of what you want to do as a guitar player. He’s not afraid to lay back and let you play. That’s what I needed, and he did a great job of it.”

Casey also describes his album in the interview as one that blends oldies, country, blues, and rock.

Check out the tracklist for Casey James’s debut album here.
You can PRE-ORDER Casey James’s debut album HERE

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  • LVD

    It’s rather like Casey, I think. Clean, spare, direct. No frills or bells or whistles. “You either like my music or you don’t. Either way I’m cool with it.” 

    I do think this is true enough, Casey is a very straightforward guy so the album cover fits his sensibilities. Most solo country male artists, have pretty straightforward covers.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve NEVER picked up an album because of it’s cover to find out more about it.  I know who I like and don’t like, and that’s all that matters to me.

  • everything

    Like all artists, Casey needs to continue to expand his audience, beyond the hard core fans. And a album cover is a marketing tool to not only appease existing fans, but also attract new ones. If Casey only relies on the 19K that follows him on Twitter, he’s in huge trouble.

  • epic_win77

    If Casey only relies on the 19K that follows him on Twitter, he’s in huge trouble. 

     

    Yeah, Twitter followers is an accurate gauge of success. Sugarland has 200K followers but I think they sold millions of albums. Casey James indeed is in huuggge trouble.

  • Anonymous

    Casey is such a good looking guy!  That said, I would have turned his head to look more forward.  Doesn’t have to be a ton but enough to at least see one eye clearly.  Have him engage somewhat with his audience.  Also, whatever is on the edge of the cover should be cropped off.  It draws your eye toward it and it shouldn’t be there.  Nothing should draw your eye except his face or name.  Then the car or whatever that is should also not be there as it also makes your eye go to it to figure out what it is. 
    I like that it is simple but would change those few things.  Casey could do the Phat Hair commercial.  yum!

  • Anonymous

    Looked at the cover at Amazon and it does make a difference.  I’m ok with the car now.  lol but I still feel it should crop off the extra on the left side.  Congrats to Casey! Kudos.

  • Anonymous

    yes, i know this to be true also.  I’m a huge Adam fan but totally hated the cover.  I’m loving the new one so much more.

  • LVD

    Like all artists, Casey needs to continue to expand his audience, beyond the hard core fans. And a album cover is a marketing tool to not only appease existing fans, but hopefully attract new ones. If Casey only relies on the 19K that follows him on Twitter, he’s in huge trouble. 

    Casey’s own fanbase is really so small after 2 years away from the show without producing an album, I pretty sure BNA are not even taking his idol fansbase into consideration. The only thing Casey can hope to achieve is to produce good music, and to hope that it resonates with country audiences. Casey has put a lot of effort into the music side co-producing and playing all of the lead guitar on album, personally I would say that effort is more important then an album cover. 
    Casey has been doing what every new artist does, and that is to do loads of radio promo gigs. As a new artists that is what you need the most, to be heard on country radio, and that is what is happening as Casey’s single is slowly climbing the charts. There is not much else they could do different, it is what all new country artists do.

    Revolutionary cover art isn’t exactly something you see in country, especially not for male country artists. 95% of country covers has the artists on them with either a guitar, cowboy hat or a pickup truck or all of  those things together.

  • Anonymous

    nvm

  • Anonymous

    “Revolutionary cover art isn’t exactly something you see in country, especially not for male country artists. 95% of country covers has the artists on them with either a guitar, cowboy hat or a pickup truck or all of those things together.”

    True, very true. And this is another reason why I like this cover because while it doesn’t break huge new ground, it does give out a different flavor than many country covers. It’s kind of retro, a bit alt. Now that I think about it, I would have been a bit disappointed if the cover showed Casey with a geeetar standing by a truck. And if he’d put on a plaid shirt and stuck his cowboy boats out, I would have gone…. ack! Cliche alert!!!

    So, yeah, the more I look at this, the more I like it. And it’s much better when you see the whole cover. That car is so cool and retro.

  • Anonymous

    “ Now that I think about it, I would have been a bit disappointed if the cover showed Casey with a geeetar standing by a truck. And if he’d put on a plaid shirt and stuck his cowboy boats out, I would have gone…. ack! Cliche alert!!!So, yeah, the more I look at this, the more I like it. And it’s much better when you see the whole cover. That car is so cool and retro. ”

    Thank goodness they didn’t have him do that! It just wouldn’t be Casey’s style. I think the car was a nice touch too since he loves old cars!

  • LVD

    It would have been pretty cliched if they had gone with the pickup truck and cowboy hat type of theme.  

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