Which rock band wore custom denim outfits designed by Nudie Cohn for its famous country-rock performances?

The Flying Burrito Brothers wore custom denim outfits designed by Nudie Cohn for their famous country-rock performances.

Nudie Cohn was a Ukrainian-born American tailor celebrated for elaborate rhinestone-covered suits made for country and Western entertainers. For the Flying Burrito Brothers, he created striking white denim outfits decorated with colorful embroidered imagery, including marijuana leaves and pills. The clothing became closely associated with the band’s visual identity.

The outfits appeared on the cover of the group’s 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin. That image helped connect denim with counterculture, country music, psychedelic design, and stage spectacle rather than only with manual labor or casual wear.

Nudie’s work is often reduced to rhinestone cowboy suits, but his influence extended to denim-based performance clothing. The Flying Burrito Brothers’ costumes are especially notable because they used customized denim as a deliberate artistic statement.