From any Trio configuration. My favorite is At Large. Great shot of the boys and those Martins and that Vega just hanging there. I remember how I used to drool over those instruments as I played my $20 Harmony Stella. Anyone else want to chime in?
I'm always tempted to say String Along because I think it's the best-composed cover photo of any of their recordings in terms of the players themselves and the 2 banjos, but the cut-out against the light purple background just wasn't very imaginative.
However, the first cover that reached out and grabbed me from the second I saw it was Here We Go Again!, and it has remained doing so all these decades later. It was cleverly staged to appear to be an actual recording session, though obviously the mics would never have been that close together and we have ample evidence of B&W photos of what Trio sessions actually looked like.
HWGA though captures one factor that really distinguished the KT from its growing number of competitors by its release in late 1959, and that was the energy of its live performances. Also, by happenstance or deliberate design, the facial expressions of NBD also seem to me to express perfectly the personalities that they projected in live performance.
I'd give an honorable mention for exactly these same qualities to New Frontier, though you'd have figured that the corporation could have spared a few dollars to enable Stewart to get a matching pair of white duck slacks.
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