Long-distance father William McKeen watched his son grow up during
summers, holidays, and long weekends. Now, with Graham in college,
the two take a summer road trip down Highway 61, the legendary road
of the blues, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. In
cheap motels and smoky bars, with obscure bluesmen and barnstorming
guitar heroes, they discover how the highway links rich and poor,
black and white. In Minnesota and Iowa, William shows his son where
he spent boyhood summers with his father, who died a decade before
Graham was born. In St. Louis, there's another nostalgic return to
a former haunt, a slice of rock-and-roll heaven called Blueberry
Hill. In Memphis, they find the genuine, uncommercialized side of
the city's legendary music world, and deep in the heart of the
Mississippi Delta they stand over the grave of legendary bluesman
Charley Patton, listen to the murmur of wind over the cotton
fields, and offer silent benediction. As they venture together
through magnificent country, walking the hometown streets of Bob
Dylan and Mark Twain, standing at Robert Johnson's haunted
crossroads, journeying from the Delta Blues Museum to Doe's Eat
Place to the Alachafaya Cafe of New Orleans, father and son come to
realize that they have a permanent connection that can never be
broken by age or distance. "Rock authority, scholar, and newly
minted good ol' boy when he feels like it, William McKeen doesn't
even know how to be uninteresting, least of all on Highway 61."
--Tom Wolfe "I read the book with joy and admiration for a writer
at the top of his game. The book bursts with inspiration and
cunningly chronicles the nuances of father/son relations in the
broader context of a rock 'n' roll illusion. McKeen achieves a
stunning narrative velocity and scope. A brilliant writer " --Nick
Fowler, author of A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla "All
the senses are touched in this sassy but poignant road book.
William McKeen's stick-to-the-ribs words will make readers hunger
for greasy burgers, thirst for icy beer, and listen to a constant
serenade of music and poetry from the shoulders of the highway. En
route they eavesdrop on a father and son memorizing each other
during their free-fall journey without any reservations." --Michael
Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road "From the Iron Range of
Minnesota, where they search for the spirit of Bob Dylan, to the
Mississippi Delta haunted by the ghost of Robert Johnson, William
McKeen and his son take the reader down Highway 61 on a trip as
rich as the musical roots they explore en route." --Curtis Wilkie,
author of Dixie
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