The Blues Highway is a road, and more. “Sometimes a road sings. Drive the old Blues Highway—Route 61 between Memphis and Vicksburg—in search of music, and you’ll find it everywhere you turn. Soul, gospel, and R&B spill out of car windows and church doors. Sometimes the music is played on guitars picked with calloused fingers in juke joints tucked under the pine trees. Muddy Waters rode the Blues Highway. So did John Lee Hooker, Bessie Smith, and B.B. King. Elvis knew it, too—his rock-and-roll is as rooted in the delta as a cypress tree in the lowland muck.”
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Along the Blues Trail
July 29, 2015
blog, My Life, Mylife, Now Mobile, Photography, Road Trip, Uncategorized flower, museum, selfie, sunflower, van, Visitors' Center, VW 22 Comments
My Eclectic Life 
Jul 29, 2015 @ 08:37:39
These are really good. You already know which one is my favorite soooo my number 2 pick is the sunflower. photo magic, 🙂
Jul 29, 2015 @ 08:39:17
Thank you so much! I like the sunflower. I went a bit nuts in the sunflower fields. I took way too many pics.
Jul 29, 2015 @ 08:40:49
A sunflower table top book in the future then?
Jul 29, 2015 @ 09:02:55
I don’t know. lol
Jul 29, 2015 @ 11:27:11
This is one of three north-south highways, on which I could spend months on end.
Jul 29, 2015 @ 17:19:33
Me too. I’ve found two of those and hwy 66.
Jul 29, 2015 @ 12:34:18
Love this post, JR — it somehow portrays the ambience of the area
Jul 29, 2015 @ 17:20:54
Thank you.
Jul 29, 2015 @ 14:08:59
I love the photos and how that old settings can be seen. Just lovely. 🙂
Jul 29, 2015 @ 17:22:20
There is so much “oldness” here. I’m going to try for some photos along the lines of nature reclaiming its domain.
Jul 29, 2015 @ 22:29:21
this is a wonderful post, JR. good quote, excellent photos. good selfie. 🙂
Jul 30, 2015 @ 08:37:58
Thank you. This is a great area for taking pictures when it isn’t blistering hot. lol
Jul 29, 2015 @ 23:10:24
Love the pictures 🙂
Jul 30, 2015 @ 08:38:16
Thank you! 🙂
Aug 01, 2015 @ 09:52:32
Yes, sometimes a road sings, as does life. We simply must choose to listen. Thank you for singing your song.
Aug 01, 2015 @ 23:22:39
You’re welcome. 😃
Aug 02, 2015 @ 15:44:40
What a wonderful high way and I bet in it’s prime it was the number one spot to be.
I really like the first two photos and the sky above the old building.
Great photo of yourself.
Aug 02, 2015 @ 23:17:03
I agree. It was the place to be.
Aug 04, 2015 @ 22:08:54
These are fantastic! And as a lover of words, I adore the stage-setting narrative. I hope I am fortunate enough to have a rich and satisfying retirement that allows me to expand my horizons, my thoughts, and my frame of reference. Well done!
Aug 05, 2015 @ 14:05:10
This means a lot coming from the writer I know you are. Thank you. hugs
Aug 07, 2015 @ 10:21:43
So are you ready yet to break out in song? I wonder if that road flows along lee a line?
Aug 07, 2015 @ 19:41:28
I have been known to break out in song.
😃
I don’t know about the lee line but it would fit.