As we have to create an album cover for one of our ancillary tasks, i have been researching famous rockabilly album cover styles.

I have come to the conclusion that most of the album art from this genre is very stylised, and often in black or white, with either a picture of the frontman or a cartoon-like image/representation of the band.

This is the iconic Stray Cats logo, which uses anthropomorphism to create a rockabilly cat. This shows that the style of the music is normally carried over to the icon, and the album cover.

Richard Hawley's Truelove's Gutter album shows a stylised image of Hawley's face, with black as the main colour. The fact that it is a greyscale image shows the idea that editing pictures can create the stylised album cover. 

Hawley's Lady's Bridge album cover shows a more relaxed Hawley posing with an electric guitar,  a common instrument in this genre. The grey suit and green background shows a more colourful side of the music. 

Join Dan Sartain shows a meld of the cartoon frontman with some comic-like graphic violence. 

From this research I have come to the conclusion that modern rockabilly album covers have a much more stylised and artistic look, as opposed to the 1950's and 70's. They can be cartoonised, or they could just be a close-up of the frontman.