Highway 61
Subtitle: crossroads on the blues highway
By: Derek Bright
Publisher: History Press Limited, The
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780752489247
Subjects: Blues (Music); Guidebooks; History and criticism; Musical landmarks; Music
Other titles: Highway sixty-one; Crossroads on the blues highway
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190) and index.
Table of contents: title: Down on the killing floor: Chicago; title: Lord, sixty one highway: Joliet to Rock Island; title: Down to St. Louis: St. Louis; title: Big train goes to Memphis: Memphis; title: Casinos and cotton: Walls to Robinsonville; title: Pass the biscuits... It's King Biscuit time: Helena; title: Juke joints, shacks and BBQ: Clarksdale; title: The ghosts of Emmett Till: Tutwiler to Greenville; title: Beyond Catfish Row: Vicksburg to Natchez; title: Carry me down on Rampart Street: New Orleans.