Vintage Postcard like on Allman Brothers EAT A PEACH back of Album Cover Unused for Sale

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Vintage Postcard like on Allman Brothers EAT A PEACH back of Album Cover Unused For Sale

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Vintage Postcard like on Allman Brothers EAT A PEACH back of Album Cover Unused:
$8.50

Thispostcard is very similar to the art seen on the rear of the Eat APeach album cover by the Allman Brothers Band.

Theart shows a giant watermelon being hauled on atrain rail car. Wording reads “The Kind We Grow inTexas.”

Thispostcard has never been mailed and is in excellent condition.

Itwill come to you in a clear acid-free soft sleeve, which allows you tohandle and/or store it while protecting it.

Thispost card measures 5 1/2" X 3 1/2".

I'vealso listed for sale a card like this one which was made bythe same company (Curteich), but was sent through the mail in 1956.

FromWikipedia

The album's artworkwas created by W. David Powell at Wonder Graphics. He had seen oldpostcards at a drugstore in Athens, Georgia, one depicting a peach ona truck and a watermelon on a rail car. Believing them perfect for anAllman Brothers album, he purchased them and "bought cans ofpink and baby-blue Krylon spray paint and created a matted area tomake the cards on a twelve-by-twenty-four LP cover." Heenvisioned the album having "an early-morning-sky feel". Hehand-lettered the band name and photographed it with a small Kodakcamera, developing the photos at the drugstore. He then cut andpasted the letters on the side of the truck, underneath the peach.

The album includes anelaborate gatefold mural featuring a fantasy landscape of mushrooms(referencing the psychedelic drug, a band favorite in its early days)and fairies, drawn by Powell and J.F. Holmes. There was very littleplanning involved in the piece, which was created when the duo werein Vero Beach, Florida. When one would be drawing or painting theimage, another would be swimming in the ocean. "We swapped offthis way with virtually no conversation about the drawing, just fluidtrade-offs," said Powell. The art was created on a largeillustration board, "on a one-to-one scale—it was the size ofthe actual spread," according to Powell. Holmes' work isfeatured largely on the left, with Powell's on the right. Both were"profoundly influenced" by Early Netherlandish painterHieronymous Bosh on the piece.

At the time the artworkwas finalized, Duane Allman was still alive and the title had notbeen finalized. As a result, the album lacks a title on the cover,which was an unusual approach for bands at the time. Powell latersaid, "When we showed it to someone at the label, he said, 'Theyare so hot right now, we could sell it in a brown paper bag'".Atlantic initially intended to title the album The Kind We Grow inDixie, the label of the postcard series Powell had seen inAthens, but the band refused. Trucks suggested they name the albumEat a Peach for Peace, after a quote from Duane Allman. Whenthe writer Ellen Mandel asked him what he was doing to help therevolution, he replied:

I'mhitting a lick for peace—and every time I'm in Georgia, I eat apeach for peace. But you can't help the revolution, because there'sjust evolution. I understand the need for a lot of changes in thecountry, but I believe that as soon as everybody can just see alittle bit better, and get a little hipper to what's going on,they're going to change it. Everybody will—not just the youngpeople. Everybody is going to say, 'Man, this stinks. I cannottolerate the smell of this thing anymore. Let's eliminate it and getstraight with ourselves.' I believe if everybody does it forthemselves, it'll take care of itself. Drummer Butch Trucksconsidered Allman's comment a sly reference to the poem “The LoveSong of J. Alfred Prifrock” by T.S. Eliot, one of Allman's favoritepoets. An untrue story persisted for many years after the album'srelease that it was named after the truck Allman crashed into,purported to be a peach truck. The album art was later selected byRolling Stone magazine in 1991 as one of the 100 greatest albumcovers of all time.