Key to the Highway: Cody Dickinson

Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series

Fans always clamor to learn more about their favorite, most beloved musicians and those who travel with them. There’s such an allure to the road, with its serendipity, inevitable surprises, and sometimes unexpected discomforts. This interview series is a set of questions we are asking some of our favorite roots rock Americana artists to get to know more about them and what they’ve learned and experienced on the road. We are sure they have key insights to share and stories to tell. Here’s one from Cody Dickinson.

Americana Highways: How do you like your coffee or other morning wake-up beverage?

Cody Dickinson: Folgers with French vanilla

AH: What’s the most interesting or strangest motel/hotel or place you have stayed (while on the road?)

CD: Pass

AH: If one CD is stuck in the player in the van for the entire tour, what do you hope it is? And why?

CD: Beethoven’s sixth symphony; it’s totally psychedelic

AH: What’s one personal item you must have with you on your road trip?

CD: iPhone

AH: What is your relationship with food? How do you handle this on the road, and what’s your favorite dish on the road, (or restaurant, and what do you order there)?

CD: I was vegetarian for ten years. Now I’m not. I like chicken.

AH: If you could pause your life for a few weeks and spend some time living in a place you only have passed through, which would you choose, and why?

CD: I have had to pause my life for six months now. I absolutely love being home with my family in Mississippi.

AH: What quote or piece of advice have you gotten from someone on the road that has really stuck with you?

CD: When the solution is simple, God is answering. – Albert Einstein

Find all things Cody Dickinson, here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/185254213

See other Key to the Highway interviews here: https://americanahighways.org/category/interviews/key-to-the-highway-series/ (click here for: Bruce Cockburn Charlie Musselwhite Jim White Danny Barnes Patterson Hood Jerry Joseph BJ Barham Rodney Crowell Todd Snider Elizabeth Cook Tommy Womack Eric Ambel, Dan Baird, Robbie Fulks, Malcolm Holcombe Jon Langford Steve Poltz, Lilly Hiatt Sarah Shook & the Disarmers )