Although U.S. 61 begins in New Orleans and runs through Baton Rouge, the portion known as the Blues Highway starts around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and moves north through the Delta to Memphis, ...

Growing up in Maine, the closest I got to the blues was when BB King played the Bangor Auditorium. Seeing that show as a fourteen-year-old was a full on event in my life. One of those flashpoints ...

Vicksburg To travel the Blues Highway from Baton Rouge, start in Vicksburg, a town grown from cotton cultivation and transportation which later became one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War ...