Highway 61 – The Journey of the Blues. It’s a story in music, about music and about musicians; featuring the stories and music of Robert Johnson, Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Etta James, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and more.

Highway 61 is a musical collage — a multi-media production that incorporates live music performances, narration and video and image projection highlighting the music and stories of the Delta Blues and its migration from the Delta in Mississippi up the Mississippi River corridor along Highway 61 to Chicago and beyond.

The Delta Blues – raw and uncomplicated. That’s what came north to Chicago. Where it became electrified, and electrifying. And recorded the way it was played live. Loud and intense, and contrary to conventional recording wisdom, amps ran hot, loud and distorted, just like on stage. The music came from the Delta, but in Chicago it was loud enough for the world to hear.