The cover picture is, as you might have spotted, just a road. Where is this road? I don’t know. Where does it lead to? Still don’t know. Well… who took the picture? No clue, sorry. The reason why I chose a road is quite simple: many country and blues songs have travelling/leaving as a theme or as an underlying motif, and what better way to incorporate this than through a lonesome road? Hank Williams sung about it in ‘Rambling Man’, Ray Charles in ‘Hit the road Jack’, Johnny Cash in a whole concept album entitled ‘The Rambler’ and even one of the fathers of Blues Robert Johnson sung about roads in ‘Crossroads’.
Even if a song does not specifically mention travelling/driving/walking, what do you think do all these people do once they have been kicked out of their home by their darling, or after they have left the neon bars in the early morning hours? They travel of course! Maybe not very far, or in a pickup-truck, but they all have lonesome walks in which to think. I hope I am not reading too far into everything, but to me, the road is the perfect symbol/metaphor for Blues and Country music.
Blues and Country 