Hits the streets on May 22, 2001. Liner notes by noted Chicago critic David Whiteis follow.
Few themes are more dominant in the folklore and lyric imagery of the blues than that of the road.
To early southern blues artists the road represented a highway to freedom, a way out of oppression and bondage, a possible path to a mythic promised land. But the road was also a dangerous pathway fraught with peril. A man might take to the road to follow his dream only to end up wandering, desperate and alone, with no place to call home. But as a blues poet he understands and feels deeply the images and passions these symbols represent. The roads Maurice has traveled have been thoroughfares of artistic and personal growth, and they've had their share of twists, curves, and unexpected new directions along the way.