This is the only cover song on the album but it is so near and dear to my roots that I had to record it. I grew up on the Gulf Coast and Highway 90 runs through San Antonio out to Sabinal where my dad spent his last days. The bluebonnets are in blossom right now and there’s nothing like driving down a rural Texas highway, hardly anyone around, and seeing the wonder of fields of these blue lupines.  Gulf Coast Highway was written by James Hooker, Nanci Griffith and Danny Flowers and originally released by Nanci Griffith on her 1988 album Little Love Affairs.

One of my friends has this painting in his home which perfectly epitomizes the song.