The main feature of Charlie Simpson's album cover is a close up portrait of Charlie which has been edited in the style of Dan Mountford's double exposure editing. The colours used within the cover are slightly retro and fit well with the folk/retro conventions seen throughout the digipak. The technique of editing is rather dream-like, folk music is often described as being dreamy and almost spiritual, this image depicts these descriptions perfectly. On the left hand side of the cover a rectangle is taken up by Charlie's name which is rather small in comparison to the album title. Long Road Home was Charlie's second album release as a solo artist so his name does not need to be as prominent as it must be on the debut album of an artist. Charlie's record label is also featured on the cover of the album which is quite unusual. Charlie was the first artist to be signed to nusic sounds, the feature of the logo would have been a good advertisement feature for the record label as Charlie already had quite a large fanbase.
The back of the cover features the song titles written in a seemingly random arrangement in a variety of font sizes, I personally think this makes the case confusing but it does make you look harder at the song titles and the case itself. There is very little legal information on the case of this album and the information that there is, is printed very small at the bottom of the case.
Charlie uses the inside of the CD case to give credit to all who helped him with the production of the album. The album title and 'Charlie Simpson' are written on the CD itself in a similar font to that used on the back of the case.
Within the case there is a pullout poster of Charlie sat behind a piano. The poster is used to thank many people and also contains the lyrics to the songs on the album.
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