Higway 61, the blues Road
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From New Orleans to Nashville, by way of Memphis, along the majestic Mississipi stretches the mythical Road of the Blues: Highway 61. Go up the sound and let drive you to the heart of the American music: the blues of B.B King, Louis Amstrong's jazz and the bluegrass of Johnny Cash. Listen to seeing... A musical stroll in pictures. Text : text available
HEMIS_190153 : United States, Louisiana, Thibodeaux, Harmonica Fats playing the Blues in one of the old houses of Laurel Valley, old 19th century sugar cane plantation
HEMIS_190160 United States, Mississippi, Greenville, Blues Highway, Route 61 mural
HEMIS_190123 United States, Louisiana, La Vacherie, Cajun musicians playing blues music
HEMIS_190140 United States, Mississippi, Tunica, the Horseshoe casino on the theme of Blues
HEMIS_190122 United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, the Jazzfest, the largest yearly Blues and Jazz festival
HEMIS_190126 United States, Louisiana, the Frogmore Plantation, cotton bolls
HEMIS_190152 United States, Louisiana, Atchafalaya Basin, cypress trees in the Bayou, Lake Fausse Pointe State Park
HEMIS_190154 United States, Louisiana, Lafayette, Chretien Point Plantation (1831) on the Bayou Bourbeaux banks, Bed and Breakfast, its interior staircase was used for the movie Gone With The Wind
HEMIS_190156 United States, Louisiana, Lafayette, Eugene Geno Delafosse, a Zydeco musician
HEMIS_190120 : United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, French Quarter musicians playing cajun music (Cajun instrument : washboard) in the French Quarter
HEMIS_190138 United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, the Shack Up Inn, a bed and breakfast, which used to be cotton plantation
HEMIS_190161 United States, Mississippi, roadsign in Indianola where bluesman B.B. King is born
HEMIS_190159 United States, Mississippi, Ruleville, Dockery Farms (1895), Delta Blues birthplace
HEMIS_190163 United States, Mississippi, Bluesman William Mc Ghee at a Gospel festival in Indianola where B.B. King is born
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United States, Mississippi, Greenville, Bluesman Lil'Bill Wallace at the Walnut Blues Bar
United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, the Shack Up Inn, a bed and breakfast which used to be cotton plantation
HEMIS_190170 United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, the Ground Zero Blues bar
HEMIS_190171 United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, bluesman Big T at Ground Zero Blues Bar
HEMIS_190164 : United States, Mississippi, Tutwiler, mural representing bluesman Aleck Miller, alias Willie Sonny Boy Williamson in the Railroad Blues Park
HEMIS_190134 United States, Mississippi, Rosedale, The Rosedale Blues Festival
HEMIS_190136 United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, the Shack Up Inn, bed and breakfast which used to be a cotton plantation
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United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale, home to lots of blues singers, a Blues Highway crossroads
United States, Mississippi, Leland, Bluesman Eddie Cusic playing in front of his home
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United States, Mississippi, Gospel festival in Indianola where bluesman B.B. King is born
United States, Mississippi, Bluesman Oneal Dean at a Gospel festival in Indianola where B.B. King is born
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United States, Mississippi, Tunica, limousine in front of the Horseshoe Casino, on the theme of Blues
United States, Tennessee, Memphis, the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King was murdered on the 4th April 1968
HEMIS_190144 : United States, Tennessee, Memphis, the famous Gibson guitar factory
HEMIS_190141 United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Cafe 61 on the Blues Highway, Route 61
HEMIS_190215 United States, South Dakota, Rapid City, the Flying T Chuckwagon bar, band
HEMIS_190142 United States, Tennessee, Beale Street in Memphis, home of Blues and the Birthplace of Rock'n Roll
HEMIS_190173 United States, Mississippi, Downtown Memphis
HEMIS_190177 United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Beale Street, club 's neon sign
HEMIS_190179 United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Bluesman Earl The Pearl playing at Wild Bill's Juke Joint
HEMIS_190178 United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Beale Street, B.B. King's Blues club, Bluesman Preston Shannon playing
HEMIS_190180 United States, Memphis, Sun Recording Studios
HEMIS_190182 : United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Elvis Presley 's statue on Beale Street
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United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Graceland, Elvis Presley 's home, the pool room
United States, Tennessee, Memphis, Elvis Presley 's Lisa Marie private jet at his home Graceland
HEMIS_190184 United States, Tennessee, Memphis, The Presley's family graves in Elvis's home, Graceland