Golliwog--billy woods | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
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Golliwog--billy woods | The Story Behind the Album Cover Art
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This album cover drops a deeply racist caricature into a quiet patch of woods and dares you to look away. It’s not playful. It’s not ironic. It’s a confrontation—one rooted in Victorian children’s books, minstrel imagery, and a slur that drifted from nursery rhyme to cultural wound. When billy woods resurrects the Golliwog, he isn’t reclaiming it—he’s freezing it in place and forcing us to reckon with what it has always been. The doll on this cover looks at you as you look at it. And it sees you. refuses to look away. This is a photograph that feels more like evidence than art and we have the story.Grab a copy and listen along with us as we trace the long, disturbing journey of the Golliwog—from toy store to public domain to abandoned railroad tracks—and unpack one of the most unsettling album covers of the last decade. Questions, comments, recommendations? We’d love to hear from you at Albumartthecoverstories@gmail.com
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