DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS POSTER SACRAMENTO 2008

“It’s all about where you put the horizon”

In 2008, I went through a period where I wanted to sharpen up my compositional skills. I’d noticed that one of the most frequent compliments my work received was “great colors.” That’s not a bad compliment to get, since a good sense of color is as necessary as any other tool in the box, but I wanted to not rely on it so much. So I did a run of single-color (often black) pieces in a row, to focus on composition over anything else. This Drive-By Truckers poster for their 2008 Sacramento appearance with Dead Confederate is one of my favorites from that era. It’s a single-color print on heavyweight paper with a good tooth to it, also designed as a bit of a jump-off from the band’s song “Monument Valley.”

This same single-color, compositional-focus period also produced my poster for Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, and years later I’d return to the band’s world again with a poster for Patterson Hood.