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A photographer beside a club stage as a singer performs with a guitarist and bassist.
Photo: Backbeat Roads

Photo credits

Photo credits

41 photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licenses shown; thank you to the photographers. 73 more are our own images.

List of photos

Our own images

These 72 images are original images of Backbeat Roads.

  • Our small tour team laughing beside a white passenger van outside a red brick warehouse officePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A travel advisor in a green sweater on the phone in our brick-walled Nashville officePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A woman writing in a notebook at the bar of an empty New Orleans music clubPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Travelers beside a white van at a cypress swamp on the Natchez Trace Parkway in springPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • An older couple on a porch swing looking at a phone together on a summer eveningPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A big crowd on blankets facing an outdoor stage at Jazz Fest in New OrleansPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A two-lane highway across flooded rice fields in the Mississippi Delta at golden hourPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Redbud trees in pink bloom on a street of old houses near Music Row, NashvillePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A choir of adults singing around a black grand piano in a wood-walled recording studioPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Two travelers at a Seattle park overlook at dusk, facing the Space Needle and Mount RainierPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A lone figure on the foggy cobblestone landing by the Mississippi River in MemphisPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A tour group in winter coats under a glowing theater marquee on a snowy Chicago nightPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Austin skyline at sunset across Lady Bird Lake, with the Congress Avenue BridgePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Chicago skyline above the sailboats of a Lake Michigan harbor at duskPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A straight two-lane highway across flat green fields in the Mississippi Delta, a truck far awayPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Downtown Detroit across the Detroit River, with a freighter passing below the tall round towersPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Downtown Memphis from above, with the Mississippi River, barges and the arched Hernando de Soto BridgePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Lower Broadway in Nashville at blue hour, with brick honky-tonks lit in neon and people crossingPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A coral-pink French Quarter townhouse in New Orleans with lacy iron balconies and green shuttersPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Gas Works Park in Seattle at sunset, the old plant towers and the Space Needle beyondPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Tennessee River at Florence, Alabama, at dusk, with a wooded bank and a long bridgePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The stage at ACL Live in Austin before a show, with drums, guitars and pedal steelPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The lilac wall of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on Lower Broadway in Nashville, a rooftop bar abovePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The small recording booth at the old Chess studio in Chicago, seen from the control roomPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Continental Club on South Congress Avenue in Austin, a black front with a red doorPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Delta Blues Museum in the old brick freight depot in Clarksdale, MississippiPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The sign of FAME Recording Studios on Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, AlabamaPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The empty auditorium of the Fox Theatre in Detroit, with red seats and a gilded archPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A yellow and red Creole building with a balcony on Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, at nightPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The curved metal walls of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, designed by Frank GehryPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Hitsville U.S.A. on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, the house where Motown recorded its hitsPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The glass pyramid of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the lakefront in ClevelandPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The red brick Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with tall arched gothic windows in late afternoon sunPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, red Stax letters over the marqueePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Sun Studio in Memphis, a brick corner building with a green awning and guitar sculpturePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A festival crowd at Zilker Park in Austin during ACL Fest, the skyline behindPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Bats pouring from under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin at dusk, kayakers belowPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A songwriters round at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, guitar players among the tablesPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A brass band playing to a dancing crowd at the Maple Leaf Bar in New OrleansPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A brass band in white shirts playing in Jackson Square, New Orleans, before St. Louis CathedralPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A long-distance passenger train waiting under the platform canopies of the train station in New OrleansPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • An analog mixing desk in a Music Row studio in Nashville, drums behind the glassPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The crossroads sign in Clarksdale, Mississippi: blue guitars on a tall pole above round hedgesPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Easy Street Records in West Seattle, a brick corner store lit on a rainy eveningPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Studio A at FAME in Muscle Shoals, a wood-paneled room with piano, drums and gold recordsPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A long row of electric guitars for sale in a Memphis guitar shopPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The busy interior of the Green Mill jazz club in Chicago, with its long curved barPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A blues band under red light in a crowded Clarksdale juke joint with scribbled wallsPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A French Quarter hotel room in New Orleans with a double bed and an iron balconyPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A jazz band playing to a seated crowd in a tent at New Orleans Jazz FestPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • An old shingle-roofed cinema with a worn blue van outside, on a Clarksdale streetPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A tin-roofed juke joint beside a cotton field in the Mississippi Delta at blue hourPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Jungle Room at Graceland in Memphis, with green shag carpet and a stone wallPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Two Mardi Gras Indians in yellow and turquoise feathered suits on a New Orleans streetPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The control room of Studio A at Hitsville U.S.A. in Detroit, with two tape machinesPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The live room of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, with a grand piano and organPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Nashville skyline at night reflected in the Cumberland RiverPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi River at sunset in New Orleans, the bridge behind itPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Two singers on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville before the lit barn backdropPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A traditional jazz band playing trumpet, drums, bass and trombone in Preservation Hall, New OrleansPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Printers Alley in downtown Nashville at blue hour, a brick lane lit by neon signsPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the Cleveland lakefront at dusk, lit from insidePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Inside the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville: curved wooden pews, the balcony and the stagePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A second line parade in New Orleans: dancers in cream suits ahead of a brass bandPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The music room at Snug Harbor jazz club in New Orleans, with a grand pianoPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • People lining up at dusk outside the Station Inn, the bluegrass club in the Gulch, NashvillePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Studio A at the Stax Museum in Memphis, with drums, an organ and microphones set upPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A crowd walking down Sixth Street in Austin at night during South by SouthwestPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • The Double Arch Bridge on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee, among autumn treesPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • An older trumpeter playing beside a saxophonist in an old wood-walled New Orleans roomPhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • Guests waiting by our white passenger van while the driver loads a suitcasePhoto: Backbeat Roads
  • A hand flipping through bins of vinyl records at Dusty Groove, a record store in ChicagoPhoto: Backbeat Roads