Is the man in black peeing from a water tower in his birthplace Kingsland, Arkansas? Or is it just an optical illusion? Nope. That's real water, that's a real image of Johnny Cash and that's a really delicate area from which the water is spewing.
Roots rock group the Band were the first country act to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, in 1968; most recently, Eric Church earned the cover spot in August of 2018.