Album art is wrong on the phone but fine in iTunes

I've got this small, but annoying problem with the album art on my iPhone. It's only one artist that's affected. All my Vince Gill songs display the album art for Alannis Morrisette's greatest hits. It seems to be associated to the artist Vince Gill because it doesn't matter what album of his I'm listening to it shows the wrong picture. I've wiped the album art in iTunes for Vince and reimported it but the problem persists. Thoughts would certainly be appreciated.
Thanks

Has happened for years with even iPods.
It depends on how the artwork was assigned.
If you manually assigned artwork and used the Find Album artwork or used the box at the bottom to drag artwork into to assign artwork, then that is the issue. Those methods makes a hidden file on your computer of the artwork and associates it to the song file. iTunes reads this when being used. During sync it syncs those little hidden files over as well. With all these "extra" files things can get messed up if files are moved, renamed, etc.
It is best to always assign artwork by right clicking a song in iTunes, choose Get Info to get to the tag editor, then paste the artwork into the Artwork tab. Then save. This process embeds the artwork into the song file so it always follows it where ever it goes.

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