Edward Keating: Blues Highway
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Following the Mississippi river from New Orleans, through the Mississippi Delta, St. Louis, Memphis, and further north, US Highway 61 is known as the "Blues Highway." It is along this route that blues music was born and traveled from the Delta up to Chicago and on to the outside world. Keating travels this journey in reverse starting in the blues clubs of Chicago - ending in post Katrina, New Orleans, and along the way encountering one of the last of the great early blues musicians,...
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  • John Primer, a blues singer and guitarist performs at Chicago B.L.U.E.S., Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 2007
  • A late night patron at Moma Rosa's Blue's Bar, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 2007
  • Ladies dressed in their finest on the street, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 2007
  • A crowd gathers in front of a blue's bar in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 2007
  • A roadside sign for Route 61 along the route between Memphis, Tennessee, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • Listening to music at the B.B. King Blues Club in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 2007
  • B.B. King Blues Club in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 2007
  • Shoe shine man looking for business along Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 2007
  • Delta Avenue in Clarksdale, a town that has been historically described as "Ground Zero" for blues aficionados, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • A teenage girl waits for her boyfriend at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September, 2007
  • Patrons at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September, 2007
  • Schekter Lee, Doug Newcomb and Chuck Tannert playing pool at Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September, 2007
  • David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the last of the early Mississippi Delta blues musicians, who died August 29, 2011, on the street in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September, 2007
  • David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the last of the early Mississippi Delta blues musicians, who died August 29, 2011, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, September, 2007
  • The Church of Christ and hand painted signs, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • An elderly Southern couple sit on the front porch of the Walnut Hills Restaurant in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, September 2007.
  • A young waiter working at Walnut Hills Restaurant, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • Businessmen outside the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, September 2007
  • Pictures of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on the walls above a booth at a roadside diner in Illinois, USA, September 2007
  • On the road traveling from Chicago to Memphis passing the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 2007
  • Krayzie Bone and Layzie Bone, members from the group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony at a hotel bar in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 2007
  • A passenger steps on to a bus heading for Clayton Station in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 2007
  • Po' Monkey's lounge is considered to be one of the last original juke joints in the south, located near Merigold, Misssissippi, USA, September, 2007
  • Singers in polka dot dresses attend the Greenville Blues Festival, the second oldest continuously operating blues festival in the United States held in Greenville, Mississippi, September 2007
  • A father with sleeping child relax to the blues at the Greenville Blues Festival in Greenville, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • Greenville Blues Festival in Greenville, Mississippi, USA, September 2007
  • In New Orleans two years after Hurricane Katrina, still suffering the Katrina Blues, Louisiana, USA, September 2007.

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