Album Title and Art
Boggy Depot was named after the ghost town of the same name. This is the area Cantrell's father grew up in. The album cover depicts a placid Cantrell standing in a branch of the Boggy River, a place he sometimes visits to hunt or fish. He detailed the choice in an interview:
- "As I was writing for the album, I actually made a few trips to Oklahoma. I would drive my truck down to the edge of the river where we shot the cover of the album. I wrote quite a few of the lyrics there. And I just had this of me with mud all over myself. It was kind of like an Apocalypse Now/Martin Sheen type of thing. It just fit the vibe of the stuff I was writing."
The album's booklet photography centers around rural Oklahoma. This includes a photo of Cantrell sitting on a porch with his great uncle, Victor Lane. The disc itself depicts Cantrell with hooks attached to his face with surgical adhesive. Strings attached to the hooks are being pulled, morbidly stretching his face.
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