File:Blackwater (Altan album).jpg

Cover art for the 1996 Altan album Blackwater. (From AllMusic.com.)

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3. Copies of the image could not be used to make illegal copies of the album.
4. It is used to illustrate an article about the album for which this image is the cover art.

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