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By Kate Donnelly. Route distance: 1,011 km. Suggested Time: 6 days. Cruise through some of the USA’s most storied music spots. The legendary Blues Highway is an unforgettable journey from Nashville, Tennessee to New Orleans, Louisiana, with music around every corner.
Our itinerary starts in Memphis, the city of Elvis Presley, where blues became rock ‘n’ roll, crosses the heart of the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of bluesmen, and ends in New Orleans, Louisiana, the jazz capital of the world. The journey takes about 6 days, but can be easily reduced if you are willing to miss out a few stops.
14 de sept. de 2010 · September 14, 2010. • 8 min read. Highway 61 running south out of Memphis forms a legendary route along the Mississippi River evocative of a delicious slice of Americana represented by a genre of...
Highway 61 Blues - Tunica. U. S. Highway 61, known as the “blues highway,” rivals Route 66 as the most famous road in American music lore. Dozens of blues artists have recorded songs about Highway 61, including Mississippians Sunnyland Slim, James “Son” Thomas, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Big Joe Williams, Joe McCoy, Charlie Musselwhite ...
Drive easy to every great blues landmark from Nashville to New Orleans. T hey may call it the Blues, but road tripping through the area where this distinctive musical style was born will likely lift your spirits. In fact, the area is so rich in musical history that U.S. Route 61, which runs right through it, has been dubbed the "Blues Highway".
2 de oct. de 2018 · The blues introduced itself to the world from Memphis. Moving up Mississippi’s Highway 61, it found a home on Beale Street, the legendary musical haven and centre of African-American culture in...
The highway is often called the Blues Highway because of its long history in blues music; part of the route lies on the Mississippi Blues Trail and is denoted by markers in Vicksburg and Tunica. [1] [2] It is also the subject of numerous musical works, and the route inspired the album Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan .
