In the early 70s I worked as a sound engineer for a small recording studio in Tupelo, Mississippi. We had a deal with Playboy Records to produce five albums a year for three years. One of the first we completed featured a local Tupelo musician named Smith Vinson. As the album neared completion, Playboy sent a photographer from Los Angeles to Tupelo to shoot an album cover for this record as well as covers for a couple of other albums we were working on. But, just before the photographer arrived, Smith had a motorcycle accident and ended up in the hospital with a broken back and the photographer had to go back to LA without the cover shot. A few weeks later, time was getting short before the release of the album and they needed the cover photo. While the photographer was in Tupelo, he had seen some of my photos, so he gave me a call and asked if I could shoot a cover. One of the songs on the album was titled "One Time for the Cow," and that was also the name of the album. This image is what we came up with. It was shot on a cheap Yashica 120 roll film camera. I shot one 12-exposure roll of Kodak color negative film and used an on-camera flash bulb attachment for fill light. Time was so short for the album release that I had to send them the unprocessed roll of film immediately, so I did not see the photo until the album was released. This was definitely outside my comfort zone. (If you'd like to hear the song, someone has uploaded it to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7blG_lazbI.)