BLACKHAWK 1995 14"x17" RARE PROMOTIONAL ARTWORK BY THE REV. HOWARD FINSTER

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THIS PROMOTIONAL ITEM COMES FROM MY TIME AT A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK WHERE I WAS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. A RECENT FIND FROM A BOX IN MY STORAGE UNIT.THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY. I HAVE OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE, CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS, THANKS!AS I MENTIONED ABOVE FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS CORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK....THIS IS AN ITEM I REALLY WANTED TO EVENTUALLY GET FRAMED, BUT TIMES CHANGE AND I AM LETTING GO SOME OF THE COOL PROMOTIONAL ITEMS I WAS GIFTED FROM MY FRIENDS AT THE RECORD COMPANIES, AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE, IT IS A UNIQUE ORIGINAL PRINT OF THE COUNTRY BAND BLACKHAWK COMMISSIONED BY THEIR RECORD LABEL ARISTA NASHVILLE BACK IN 1995 AND SENT OUT TO COUNTRY RADIO MUSIC DIRECTORS & PROGRAMMERS PRIOR TO THE RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM TITLED "STRONG ENOUGH" IT IS BY THE FOLK ARTIST THE REV. HOWARD FINNSTER (SEE BELOW FOR INFO), AND I AM SURE IT WAS A LIMITED PRINT RUN, THO THIS IS NOT NUMBERED. IT INCLUDES ALL THREE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE BAND INCLUDING THE LATE VAN STEPHENSON, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 2001. IT ALSO COMES WITH AN EXTRA SHEET WITH INFO ON THE BAND AND THE ARTIST. IT IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, AND WOULD LOOK AWESOME MATTED & FRAMED. IT MEASURES 14"x17". THIS IS ON HEAVY DUTY STOCK ART PAPER, GREAT FOR FRAMING!HERES MORE INFO ON THE BAND & THE ARTIST. FEEL FREE TO AS QUESTIONS & THANKS FOR LOOKING!Blackhawk is an American country music group founded in 1992 by Henry Paul ( lead vocals , mandolin , acoustic guitar ), Van Stephenson ( background vocals , electric guitar ), and Dave Robbins (background vocals, keyboards ). Several backing musicians also performed with the trio; however, these backing musicians were not officially part of Blackhawk until 2008.Prior to the group's formation, Robbins and Stephenson had co-written several Number One singles for the country pop band Restless Heart , and Stephenson had also charted two pop hits in the early 1980s. [2] Paul was previously a member of the Southern rock band Outlaws as well.In 1993, Blackhawk was signed to a record deal with Arista Nashville . Their debut single, "Goodbye Says It All", was released that year, peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs ) charts, [1] and their first album (1994's BlackHawk ) was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA . Throughout the rest of the 1990s, the band continued to chart several singles, in addition to releasing three more albums and a Greatest Hits package.Van Stephenson departed the group in 2000 due to complications from skin cancer . He was replaced with Randy Threet (also a former member of the Outlaws), who made his first appearance on Spirit Dancer , the band's fifth studio album. After Threet's departure in 2003, Anthony Crawford took over as tenor vocalist and lead guitarist; Crawford was, in turn, succeeded by Michael Randall four years later. From early 2008 until he re-joined in 2010, Robbins left the group to resume his songwriting career, and Threet re-joined. Since then, BlackHawk's backing band has been subsumed into the main group, which comprises Paul (lead vocals, guitar, mandolin), Randy Threet ( bass guitar , background vocals), Chris Anderson (lead guitar, background vocals), Dave Robbins ( keyboards , background vocals), and Monte Yoho ( drums , percussion ).Strong EnoughBlackhawk's second album, Strong Enough , was released in 1995. Its lead-off single, "I'm Not Strong Enough to Say No" peaked at No. 2, followed by "Like There Ain't No Yesterday" at No. 3. Both of these singles were also Number One hits on the RPM Top Country Tracks charts in Canada. However, none of the other three singles from the album reached Top Ten in either country with the exception of "Big Guitar" reaching No. 8 in Canada, and "King of the World", the final single, fell short of the Top 40. Nonetheless, Strong Enough earned the group an RIAA gold certification for selling 500,000 copies.Howard Finster (December 2, 1916 - October 22, 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia . He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Gardens , a folk art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations include outsider art , naïve art , and visionary art . Finster first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for R.E.M. and Talking Heads .He first started receiving outside publicity in 1975. That year, Atlanta, Ga. television station Channel 5 ran a story; he also appeared in an Esquire magazine article that first dubbed his museum Paradise Garden . He made his first exhibition appearance in 1976 and painted four paintings for the Library of Congress in 1977. He was also selected to be part of the Venice Biennale in 1984.Finster gained national fame after his collaborative work with Athens, Georgia -based rock band R.E.M. . The group filmed the video for the group's debut single " Radio Free Europe " in Finster's Paradise Gardens in 1983. The following year, the band's singer Michael Stipe and Finster collaborated on a painting for the cover of their second album Reckoning . After that the band made the song "Maps and Legends" (in its third album Fables of the Reconstruction ) as an homage to Finster. Along with R.E.M., Finster also appeared in the documentary film Athens, GA: Inside Out , filmed in 1985, in which he tells the story of how he came to be an artist. Finster (and his art) also appears in the band's video for Radio Free Europe.The band Talking Heads commissioned a Finster painting for Little Creatures in 1985 that was subsequently selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine. Other artists to use Finster as an album cover designer include Memory Dean , Pierce Pettis , and Adam Again . In 1994, a portion of his Paradise Garden was installed as part of the permanent collection of Atlanta's High Museum . Bill Mallonee of the Vigilantes of Love (also a Christian from Athens, Georgia ) wrote a song inspired by Finster's artwork called The Glory and the Dream in 1994.Howard Finster was responsible for introducing millions to outsider art , but even with his fame, he remained focused on religious outreach. He said of the Talking Heads album, "I think there's twenty-six religious verses on that first cover I done for them. They sold a million records in the first two and a half months after it come out, so that's twenty-six million verses I got out into the world in two and a half months!"The classification of his creations overlap folk art and outsider art for the origin, naïve art and visionary art for the content.PLEASE NOTE THAT $3.00 OF THE SHIPPING COSTS FOR THIS ITEM, IS FOR THE MAILING TUBE, WHICH SHOULD BE REUSABLE IF YOU PEAL OFF THE ADDRESS LABEL AND POSTAGE LABELS. THANKS!INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS TAKE NOTE !!! INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE ITEM AND COUNTRY SHIPPED TO.IF YOU OPT TO NOT PAY FOR THE EXTRA INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED MAIL, AND OPT FOR THE REGULAR INTERNATIONAL FIRST CLASS WHICH HAS NO TRACKING AT ALL, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PACKAGE, AND I WILL TAKE PICTURES OF MY POST OFFICE RECEIPTS AND MY U.S. CUSTOMS FORMS AND SEND THEM TO YOU AS PROOF OF MY MAILING YOUR ITEM OUT, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILINGS OF YOUR COUNTRIES POSTAL SERVICE, KNOW THIS BEFORE YOU BID ON ANY OF MY ITEMS!!! IF YOUR ITEM DOES NOT ARRIVE DO NOT BLAME ME!DUE TO THE RECENT INCREASE IN THE INTERNATIONAL MAILING RATES THAT WENT UP ON JAN. 27,2013, I WILL NOT DO A FLAT RATE FOR ANY ITEMS, FROM NOW ON YOU WILL HAVE TO CALCULATE THE RATE BASED UPON YOUR COUNTRY. ALSO ADDITIONAL COMBINED ITEMS WILL MEAN A HIGHER SHIPPING CHARGED BASED ON EACH ITEM. SORRY ABOUT THIS, BUT THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT THAT. REGISTERED INTERNATIONAL MAIL WHICH ALLOWS FOR DOOR TO DOOR TRACKING IS AN ADDITIONAL $13.00.I DO COMBINE SHIPPING..........THIS PROMO ITEM IS OPENED BUT UNUSED UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONSInternational Buyers - Please Note:Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility.Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying.PLEASE PAY FOR ALL ITEMS WITHIN 5 DAYS, OR MESSAGE ME TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU CAN'T,(IF YOU ARE BIDDING OR PLAN TO BID ON OTHER ITEMS) I WILL DO A ONE WEEK WAIT FROM THE DATE OF THE END OF THE FIRST AUCTION WIN, TO COMBINE SHIPPING ON ITEMS, AFTER THAT I NEED PAYMENT IN FULL AND WILL MAIL OUT THE ITEMS , EVEN IF YOU ARE BIDDING ON OTHERS, THUS BEGINS A NEW BILLING/SHIPPING CYCLE. THIS CASH FLOW IS MY SOURCE OF INCOME FOR PAYING RENT/BILLS, ETC. IF YOU HAVE WON AN ITEM AND I DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU ONE WAY OR THE OTHER WITHIN 7 DAYS I WILL OPEN AN "UNPAID ITEM CASE", IN ORDER TO FREE UP THE ITEM FOR A POSSIBLE RE-LISTING OR A "SECOND CHANCE OFFER". PLEASE WHEN YOU WIN AN ITEM TRY AND PAY FOR IT IN A TIMELY FASHION OR LET ME KNOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT OTHER ITEMS I HAVE LISTED, I MAIL ITEMS OUT WITHIN TWO WORKING DAYS ONCE PAYMENT IS RECEIVED. DO NOT ASK FOR ITEM TO ME MARKED "GIFT" ON CUSTOMS FORMS, INTERNATIONAL BUYERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL DUTIES AND CUSTOMS FEE'S! CHECK WITH YOUR POST OFFICE, I WILL NOT PAY THEM.NEW NOTE TO ALL POTENTIAL BIDDERS PLEASE! DO NOT BID IF YOU HAVE NO INTENTION OF PAYING FOR AN ITEM YOU MIGHT WIN, ALSO IF YOU ARE AN INTERNATIONAL BIDDER, PLEASE! BE AWARE OFTHE COST OF INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING. I DO NOT LIKE OPENING UNPAID ITEM CASES BUT I WILL IF YOU NEGLECT TO PAY AND I WILL PUT YOU ON MY "BLOCKED BIDDER" LIST. read more

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