Read an excerpt from this book 2nd edition AVAILABLE NOW 'Superb...award-winning stuff.' - The Guardian |
'Perfect... stuffed with the kind of information you could waste hours looking for on the spot.'
Mojo 'A great book. The Blues Highway passes the ultimate test of any travel guide - you read it and you instantly want to be there. Even if you can't make the trip, read the book and dream.' Uncut 'You would be mad, bad or otherwise afflicted not to take this brilliant guide along. ' The Sunday Times (UK) 'For those intending to travel the Blues Highway, I envy you. For those who are unable to make the trip, read this and weep!' Jazz Journal International The Blues Highway is a classic road trip through the cradle of musical innovation in America. This definitive travel and music guide follows Highway 61 and the Mississippi River to explore the roots of jazz, blues, Cajun, zydeco, country, gospel, soul and rock & roll music. Trace the story from Congo Square in New Orleans to down-home Delta blues joints then on to Memphis, Nashville, St Louis, Davenport and eventually to Chicago. This is the journey that many African-Americans made from the cotton fields of the South to the tenements of Chicago in search of work during the years of the Great Migration. As they traveled, so they took their music with them. |
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The Blues Highway
Comprehensive city guides with 50 maps – from New Orleans to Chicago