The Blues Highway

£12.99

This definitive travel and music guide follows Highway 61 and the Mississippi River to explore the routes of jazz, blues, cajun, zydeco, country, gospel soul and rock and roll music. 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'. Includes maps, events listings, geographical and cultural landmarks.