Guy Minnebach, the Sherlock Holmes of Warhol vinyl, has made yet another new discovery: A 1958 cover…

Guy Minnebach, the Sherlock Holmes of Warhol vinyl, has made yet another new discovery: A 1958 cover for Archie Bleyer’s Cadence records, commissioned from Warhol via the ad agency Hockaday Associates, for an album by Colombian pianist Al Escobar and his Afro-Cuban orchestra. To prove it’s by Warhol (he was working in a shared style), Minnebach can cite several known drawings that pretty clearly relate to the cover. (And a factoid I can contribute: Warhol and especially his mother were close to a Hockaday executive named Joe Giordano, who lived near them; Warhol’s commercial success very often involved a social connection.)As Minnebach explains in his post, Warhol’s cover is for one of a series of twelve albums that share a peculiar design conceit: They all feature a kind of full-blown sales-pitch, in big letters under the cover image. But what’s most exciting about the discovery, for me, is that it signals a coming failure for Warhol, rather than a current success. Of the twelve…