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The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, 2nd: A Travel and Music Guide

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Amazing amount of research, beautiful writing, great pix and full of respect for the music and the area. Every blues lover should have one.

Read this and you'll soon be packing your bags and heading for the Blues Highway. A great book, full of detail but entertaining too. Highly recommended to anyone who loves blues and jazz or just loves great American road trips!

I bought this book after hearing a great review on NPR, thinking I had no real plans to travel the Blues Highway. But when you read it you can almost hear the music and you can practically see those juke joints and crossroads! Buy this book and you'll want to go!

As well as being a comprehensive travel and music guide, this book provides excellent information about the history of the music of the region. The mapping detail is incredible. A must for all jazz and blues fans. Highly recommended.

book arrived in good condition. I enjoyed reading it, and then I gave it to my wife. she cound not put it down. Great novel - - - great author.

It's with a twinge of regret that I've never made this trek. I grew up in Chicago, I love the people of the south, I adore the blues and I've always wanted to experience this seminal journey.

After reading the author's exquisite reporting (with lots of great pics) now I'm really jones-ing to carve out some time and do this!

I expect when I finally do, I'll even hear the ghosts of the great bluesmen who've populated the delta region through the years.

From Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters and Chicago to New Orleans, this is the definitive guide to Blues Highway.

I can't believe it took an outsider like a Brit to finally bring this wonderful history and travel guide to light, but I sure am glad he did.

Highly recommended.