I’ve been involved with the production of CD, vinyl and DVD packaging for well over 20 years now, on around 400 separate releases, and in that time had the privilege of working on packaging for many of my favourite bands from growing up as part of the rockabilly scene (Restless, Sharks, Meteors, Caravans, Polecats, Frenzy, Stray Cats, Crazy Cavan, Matchbox, Wild Angels, Shakin’ Stevens, Shakin’ Pyramids, Screaming Lord Sutch) but this one is a real treat for me. The Long Tall Texans have been a fave band of mine since forever and we got to support them a few times with our own band over the years in Norwich, Leicester and Stoke-on-Trent, but I never worked on any of their releases. Their releases regularly featured absolutely awesome illustration work by the fantastic Geo Parkin (“Aces & Eights”, “Saturnalia”, “Singing to the moon”, “In without knockin'”, “Gotta Go”, “Texas Beat”, “Five Beans in the Wheel”) and this is another great. With such great illustration work, my part has been purely doing the boring stuff like typesetting, layout and pre-press but none-the-less, I’m really chuffed to have contributed.