If your favorite album cover envelops music by Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Brown, Waylon Jennings, Steppenwolf, Willie Nelson, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, Isaac Hayes, Patti Smith or the Atlanta Rhythm Section, there is a chance an artist from Alabama’s Wiregrass had a hand in it.

Mike McCarty is a Dothan native and an Auburn University graduate who formed a design studio business with his wife, Sherri, and McCartyGraphics would go on to work on album covers, posters and other artwork with some of music’s most iconic artists.

McCarty talks about his career and why he will never retire in the video below.

Want more from Mike McCarty? How about the time he met the Rolling Stones?

Or the time he met Jerry Lee Lewis?