Townes Van Zandt

Neil Diamond

Waylon Jennings

For this latest edition of our Picture Book series, we present to you our favorite photos of musicians with the ol’ stars and stripes. Do you have any favorite ones? Send ‘em over to whenyouawakela at gmail dot com and we’ll add them to the list. Check out photos of Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and more after the jump.
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Outtakes from The Beach Boy’s February 1966 photo session at the San Diego Zoo for the cover of their record, Pet Sounds (via For The Dishwasher). More pics from the zoo are after the jump.
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Bob Dylan

It’s Movember, folks! Movember is the global fundraising movement dedicated to raising awareness of prostate cancer and men’s health. Thousands of men from across the world sign up and pledge to grow a mustache from scratch for the entire month November (no shaving)!

Jimi Hendrix

Though I can’t technically grow a mustache (I am female after all), we still wanted to fully support the movement here at When You Awake so have put together this collection of some of our very favorite mustaches to lend you inspiration.

David Crosby

If Dylan, Parsons, Harrison, The Avett Brothers and just about every other one of our favorite musicians have worn mustaches, surely you can do it for one month for charity,  right?

Gram Parsons

But that ain’t all. If any of you decide to participate, email us (whenyouawakela at gmail dot com) your page on the Movember website and we will not only 1) feature your profile on When You Awake but 2) put all of the readers’ names who completed Movember into a hat and choose one to make a special mixtape for at the end of the month (on any theme of your choosing). So get out those razors for one final shave and check out more of our favorite ‘staches after the jump.
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Dusty Springfield spinning vinyl. Additional photos of famous and not-so-famous women spinning vinyl –including Brigitte Bardot, Bobbie Gentry and others — are after the jump.
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We saw this picture of When You Awake’s Editor in Chief Jody Orsborn’s parents, taken on their wedding day in Napa, California in 1970, and were so inspired that we decided to put together some of our own favorite vintage hippie wedding pics. Check them out after the jump. Do you have some good ones of your own? Post them up over on our Facebook page.
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Porter Wagoner

Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Little Jimmy Dickens, Carl Smith, Ray Price

Carl Butler & Pearl

From Gram Parsons to Ernest Tubb, nudie suits have been a staple of just about every country star’s wardrobe. To prove it, we’ve put together this photo gallery of some of our favorite Nudie Cohn-tailored pics. Enjoy more sweet threads after the jump.
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All photos by Michael Cooper.

We are very honored to share this exclusive Picture Book with you. These photographs were taken by Bob Mehok on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands between 1969-1973. They have been reproduced here with Bob’s permission. Check out more photos after the jump.
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Part Five of our Cabinessence photo series. Be sure to check out Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four if you missed them.
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A scenic-themed photo series. Additional pics after the jump. To view more photo galleries from our Picture Book series, click here.
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