Songs such as Blowin’ Dust, the new one from Randy Ross, just remind me of the differences between the USA and England, where I write this from. Here, if we get in a car and head out on a road trip, we can drive the length of our country in a day, and having done so, we may have never ventured too far from towns and cities, service stations and road signs.
Blowin’ Dust is everything romantic and resonant about driving in America, at least when you get away from the cities – open roads, dust-covered highways, cinematic vistas, big skies and the beautiful loneliness of the long-distance driver.
Musically it is traditional country music personified, cool deliveries, rhythmic guitars, boogiesome beats, graceful grooves and spiralling violins, but its power, when seen from afar at least, is the image it portrays. It’s an image you don’t easily relate too when driving from Bristol to Slough along the M4 in the UK.
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