In 2013, Basic Rock’s much-missed sister journal The Blues took a deep dive into the making of John Landis’s traditional film The Blues Brothers. Author Darren Weale spoke with actor and screenwriter Dan Aykroyd and to among the musicians concerned with the late John Belushi and the Blues Brothers: Curtis Salgado, Steve Cropper, Tom ‘Bones’ Malone and Lou Marini. It is fairly a narrative.
The Dixie Sq. Mall that stood on the junction of 151st Road and the Dixie Freeway in Harvey, Illinois had its grand opening in November 1966. By November 1978 it was deserted. That’s to not say the outdated lady had outlived her usefulness.
The next summer season, director John Landis rented the positioning to shoot a demolition derby of auto destruction for his newest venture, a musical comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood, The Blues Brothers. Landis had new store home windows and merchandise put in; he signed up dealerships to inventory the automobile park and mocked-up showrooms with the most recent in shiny and fat-rubbered Detroit metal.
The mall was ultimately razed to the asphalt in Could 2012 however Landis and his group of stunt drivers gave the demolition crew one helluva head begin on that summer season night time again in ’79. The brand new vehicles and the mall could be wrecked in a single spectacular cash shot that was over in a matter of minutes.
By all accounts, that night’s filming was bang on schedule however then among the forged and crew started to note that one in every of their quantity was lacking. “No one may discover John,” Dan Aykroyd tells The Blues. “I couldn’t discover him on set or in my trailer, his trailer, anybody’s trailer. The radios have been going loopy. It was 2am and we needed to depart by daybreak. Money and time have been ticking away. I may simply see $150,000 disappearing.
“I went to have a cigarette and stood beneath the celebrities, beneath the road lamps,” he continues. “I may see damaged road lamps and a path of tufts of grass and damaged glass, with the lights fading into the gap, like when Frank Sinatra is in his raincoat as he walks away. It was a logical stroll to observe and I went down it. Lights within the houses round have been extinguished. It was a darkish suburban neighbourhood.”
As he sauntered alongside the quiet road, Aykroyd noticed one thing glowing within the distance.
“One mild was on,” he remembers. “I knocked and a person got here to the door. I stated, ‘I’m sorry to disturb you, I’m on the lookout for a lacking member of our movie crew.’ The person stated, ‘You imply Belushi? He’s been right here two hours, raided my fridge. He’s asleep on the sofa.’”
That night is Dan Aykroyd’s favorite reminiscence of his late buddy: “He was the visitor who wouldn’t depart.”
Debuting in 1980, The Blues Brothers film is a light-hearted musical comedy that grew to become a culturally vital occasion. It launched a era unaware of the cultural significance of African-American music like jazz, blues and soul to legends like Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, James Brown and Cab Calloway.
Choosing up his brother ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues from jail the place he’s served a three-year stretch for armed theft, Elwood Blues has the audacity to show up in The Bluesmobile (Illinois licence plate BDR529), a decommissioned ’74 Mount Prospect, Illinois Dodge Monaco patrol automobile.
He swapped their Cadillac for a microphone. The brand new motor’s attributes will come in useful when the brothers attempt to keep one step forward of State Troopers, Illinois nazis and a pissed-off nation band known as The Good Ol’ Boys… and Jake’s homicidal ex-girlfriend, performed by Carrie Fisher. Says Elwood: “It’s bought a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s bought cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a mannequin made earlier than catalytic converters so it’ll run good on common gasoline.”
The film’s plot is straightforward. The boys return to the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud orphanage in Calumet Metropolis, Illinois, the place they have been raised by Sister Stigmata – aka The Penguin – to search out that she’s combating closure. They want $5,000 to pay property taxes and keep in enterprise. ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood go to the evangelical church service of Cleophus James (performed brilliantly by James Brown), the place Jake all of a sudden sees the sunshine.
It’s a mission from God. Put their outdated band The Blues Brothers again collectively, placed on a present and accumulate sufficient dough to avoid wasting the orphanage.
All they need to do is locate their outdated bandmates.
However hey, we’re getting forward of ourselves right here. As Steve Cropper advised us, “The Blues Brothers was a band means earlier than it was a film…”
In 1975, Belushi joined the forged of comedy sketch present Saturday Night time Stay. His trademark skit concerned dressing up as a bumble bee and singing Slim Harpo’s 1957 Excello Information B-side I’m A King Bee (‘Nicely, I’m a king bee, buzzin’ round yo’ hive’). It was Dan Aykroyd that sparked Belushi’s preliminary curiosity in blues music (he was bored of rock and hated disco) however singer and harpist Curtis Salgado will get the credit score for fanning the embers.
“He positive turned John on to blues music,” acknowledges Aykroyd. “He steeped him in blues tradition. I listened to him for my very own harmonica apply.”
Salgado first met John Belushi in October 1977, when the comic was in Eugene, Oregon, filming one other John Landis-directed image, Nationwide Lampoon’s Animal Home. Though he was a well-recognized face on TV, Belushi’s portrayal of John ‘Bluto’ Blutarsky – a cross between “Groucho Marx and the Cookie Monster” – within the film would show to be the function that made him a king bee for actual; a Hollywood A-lister. Salgado nonetheless, had no thought who this man was.
“When he noticed me play, he requested an area cocaine seller and hanger-on, ‘Who’s that man on stage?’” remembers Salgado. “I used to be with The Nighthawks with Robert Cray within the King Cole Room of the Eugene Resort in Portland. I used to be in mid-set when a man comes up and says, ‘John Belushi needs to speak to you.’ I say, ‘I’m singing. Fuck off.’”
Regardless of Salgado’s charming riposte, Belushi was decided to make his acquaintance.
“I leap off stage and head to a gaggle of women,” he remembers. “This man grabs me and spins me round, says, ‘Meet John Belushi.’ This different man reaches out his hand. I’m trying round over my left shoulder on the ladies when Belushi says, ‘I like your music. It jogs my memory of a buddy of mine. His identify is Dan Aykroyd. He seems to be such as you, he performs harp too.’ I feel, ‘Nice, that’s simply what I would like, one other harp participant.’”
Belushi defined that along with filming Animal Home, he was nonetheless fulfilling his Saturday Night time Stay commitments by flying again to New York on the finish of every week.
“I by no means noticed it,” says Salgado of the present. “I’m a working musician. No time for TV. We now have radio in our home.”
As he tried in useless to brush Belushi off, Salgado lastly heard one thing that basically snagged his full consideration.
“I’m packing up my harps, attempting to interrupt free, when he says, ‘I’m going to have Ray Charles on the present.’ I flip and say, ‘You bought to ask him about Guitar Slim and The Issues That I Used To Do. You may hear Ray shout on the finish of the report that it’s a take.’”
Ray Charles was in his early 20s when he organized, produced and performed piano on Eddie ‘Guitar Slim’ Jones’ million-selling 1953 rhythm and blues smash. By now warming to Belushi, Salgado dropped one other nugget about The Genius into the dialog. “I stated, ‘Have you learnt Ray performs alto sax? He did on Stay At Newport [released on Atlantic Records in 1958] on a tune known as Sizzling Rod.’”
“After the present completed we partied a bit and he flew out,” says Salgado. “Saturday Night time Stay performs the next weekend. On the Sunday morning, rumours are spreading that Ray Charles performed sax for the primary time in 17 years on Saturday Night time Stay with the Saturday Night time Stay Band, as a visitor. I feel, ‘I did this.’”
Belushi was paying consideration. He was getting hooked on the blues and Curtis Salgado was to turn out to be his seller.
“John calls me up, says, ‘Let’s get collectively,’” he remembers. “I begin bringing him my data: Fat Waller, Magic Sam, Sonny Boy Williamson. 30 data… an enormous pile. Howlin’ Wolf, Bobby Bland, Blues Consolidated. He dug Magic Sam. He absorbed it. He was severe – a really good man – and intense.”
Fairly quickly, in fact, Belushi needs to carry out this music…
“We performed the Eugene Resort each Monday, known as ourselves The Cray Hawks,” Salgado says. “A very good crowd, a pair hundred. Then John Belushi started coming in. The phrase will get out and it was tenfold. He needs to sit down in, asking me can he do Johnny B. Goode or Jailhouse Rock. I inform him they’re corny. I turned him on to Floyd Dixon’s Hey Bartender [released in 1954 on Cat Records]. Positive sufficient, he’s there subsequent Monday. I stated, ‘I’ll name you on the finish of the second set.’ The place was now packed. The viewers goes apeshit after I announce we’re doing a tune with John Belushi. He will get up on stage.”
Belushi made the error of performing Hey Bartender in character to get laughs from the group. Salgado was not amused.
“I felt a bit bitter,” he admits. “He’s doing the tune with a gravelly voice and his arms clenched. I’m on harp and trying to my left, considering, ‘Is that Joe Cocker?’ The viewers are peeing their pants. I’m a bit disgruntled. That’s not a severe technique to do the tune.”
In the course of the post-show evaluation, Salgado gave Belushi a dressing down.
“He asks me, ‘What did you assume?’”
“I say, ‘John, it’s Joe Cocker.’”
‘Sure, I do Joe on Saturday Night time Stay.’
“I punch his chest and say, ‘That you must do that from right here [pointing at his heart] and be your self.’ After that he didn’t mimic any extra. He was himself.”
“John got here again from Oregon with a lust for the blues,” remembers his widow, Judith Belushi. “He had tapes in his pockets and went to golf equipment.”
The Blues Brothers idea was conceived when Belushi and Aykroyd met in a bar just a few years earlier. John would sing; Dan would play the harp. Additionally current right now was Saturday Night time Stay musical director Howard Shore, who dubbed the union The Blues Brothers. The identify hit the spot and stayed there.
The idea gathered momentum on the recording of Saturday Night time Stay.
“I made an association for The Blues Brothers of the tune Rocket 88 and we rehearsed it with the Saturday Night time Stay Band,” says trombonist Tom ‘Bones’ Malone. “We developed the characters and their steps, however we didn’t get on the present. As a substitute, we have been requested to heat up the studio viewers. Their response was fairly good.
“The following week we thought, let’s do Hey Bartender,” he continues. “Once more, we didn’t get on the present. Lorne Michaels, the present’s producer, stated he didn’t see something humorous in The Blues Brothers. The following week we did nothing. The week after, he stated, ‘The present is three minutes brief, what can we do?’ John steered The Blues Brothers. Lorne stated, ‘You might as effectively make fools of yourselves, but when the present goes over time I’ll minimize your half.’ We did it and had a tremendous response, with playing cards and calls from the TV viewers.”
Issues began to maneuver rapidly. Report govt Michael Klenfner took John and Dan to see Ahmet Ertegün at Atlantic Information. He signed The Blues Brothers up. The boys now wanted a band.
“John was the chief of The Blues Brothers Band,” says Bones. “He selected me, [pianist and future David Letterman Show band leader] Paul Shaffer and [saxophonist] Blue Lou Marini. He advised me to decide on one other horn participant. I selected Alan Rubin [aka Mr Fabulous] from the Saturday Night time Stay Band. [Legendary songwriter of Viva Las Vegas, A Mess Of Blues and others] Doc Pomus was John’s blues guru in New York and he selected Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy to affix the band. I really helpful Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and Steve Cropper.”
Dan Aykroyd stays grateful to Malone, Marini and Shaffer. “There could be no Blues Brothers with out these gents,” he says. “It was Tom Malone and Paul Shaffer who steered we method Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper, who have been enjoying with Otis Redding. Then we grew to become greater than a comedy tribute. We grew to become true blues with the total band and had the actual essence of the music. Duck and Shaffer have been each archivists and turned us on to a lot. They have been our musicologists, introducing us to songs like [James Brown’s ’69 hit] Mom Popcorn (You Acquired To Have A Mom For Me). They and Lou Marini helped us deal with the music with information, humour and with confidence that we have been venerating it. They gave John confidence as a singer and me as an instrumentalist.”
Stax Information and Booker T & The MG’s alumni bassist ‘Duck’ Dunn and guitarist Steve ‘The Colonel’ Cropper initially thought the calls they acquired from John Belushi to recruit them for The Blues Brothers have been bogus.
“I used to be mixing, and I inform the women to not disturb me until it’s a buddy calling me to go to lunch,” Cropper remembers. “When Belushi known as, they figured it was essential sufficient to place by, however I didn’t consider it was him. He’d be saying, ‘I would like you within the band,’ and I’d say, ‘You’re not him!’ I just about hung up on him.
“The combination I used to be doing was for guitarist Robben Ford. He says, ‘What did he need?’ I say, ‘For me to go to New York and be part of The Blues Brothers Band.’ He says, ‘I’ll do it.’ I stated, ‘No you gained’t, I’m doing it.’ I completed the combo and arrived a day later than John needed.”
Session saxophonist Tom ‘Triple Scale’ Scott and Saturday Night time Stay Band drummer Steve ‘Getdwa’ Jordan accomplished the line-up and The Blues Brothers started rehearsing for a run of exhibits on the Common Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, opening on September 9, 1978 for comic Steve Martin.
Whereas selecting the set-list ought to have been straightforward – particularly with a few Stax legends onboard – Aykroyd admits he made just a few odd ideas.
“We considered doing a blues model of Stairway To Heaven,” he says. “Duck stated no.”
“The Blues Brothers had been rehearsing with Duck a day earlier than I arrived,” provides Steve Cropper. “I get there and Duck says to me, ‘These guys are rehearsing songs nobody has ever heard of.’”
Stairway denied, the band changed it with the 1967 Sam & Dave Stax traditional, Soul Man.
“I say to Shaffer, ‘You already know Soul Man?’” remembers Cropper. John says, ‘I can’t sing it that top!’ however we performed it in the important thing of E as an alternative of the important thing of G and we now have performed ever since. A greater key!”
The dwell minimize of Soul Man ultimately peaked at 14 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. Cropper additionally had some ideas on ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood’s stage presentation. “I noticed them singing standing nonetheless and stated, ‘You’ve bought to maneuver round extra, like Sam and Dave.’”
The primary Amphitheatre present was launched because the 1978 Atlantic Information album, A Briefcase Full Of Blues. It was devoted to Curtis Salgado.
“No one within the crowd anticipated to see Dunn and Cropper,” says Steve Jordan of the band’s dwell debut.
“We hit the stage on hearth and performed [Otis Redding’s ’65 B-side] Can’t Flip You Unfastened. The group was shocked and shocked. We simply ripped it up. Individuals have been freaking out.”
“Afterwards, John pulled me into his trailer with Dan and opened a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne,” Jordan provides. “There was a knock on the door and Mick Jagger and Linda Ronstadt walked in. I’d seen that in my goals. Jagger was all smiles – it was like a whirlwind, a congratulatory go to.”
“On the third night time, I used to be the skin horn, nearest the viewers,” remembers Marini. “I noticed Jack Nicholson within the viewers. He checked out me, lifted his sun shades and went, ‘Wow!’”
When the choice was made to make a film primarily based across the band and its two main characters, some line-up adjustments needed to be made. Different commitments meant that Paul Shaffer, Steve Jordan and Tom Scott have been unavailable. Willie ‘Too Huge’ Corridor stepped in on drums. Corridor performed with the Bar-Kays band at Stax and Isaac Hayes’s band The Motion; he performed percussion on Hayes’ album Sizzling Buttered Soul and his Theme From Shaft.
Murphy ‘Murph’ Dunne took over on keyboards (the boys rescue him from lounge-band hell and his band Murph And The MagicTones). Tom Scott was not changed, taking the band again right down to a three-man horn part.
Dan Aykroyd spent six months writing the screenplay for what would ultimately turn out to be The Blues Brothers film. The outcome was a 324-page slab (sure within the covers of an LA Yellow Pages as a joke) that was too unwieldy to breed onscreen.
The film’s director John Landis spent a fortnight whittling Aykroyd’s efforts right into a workable script. The completed outcome contained among the biggest film dialogue ever. The Blues Brothers is second solely to This Is Spinal Faucet for killer quotes.
There’s the traditional second when ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood have the required scratch to avoid wasting the orphanage and have to get it into the fitting arms. What ensues is an orgy of automobile crashes as they’re pursued by State Troopers – together with John Sweet as Burton Mercer – and Illinois Nazis, whose chief was brilliantly portrayed by Henry Gibson. And what dialogue kicks off the mayhem!
Elwood: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we bought a full tank of gasoline, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s darkish… and we’re carrying sun shades.”
Jake: “Hit it.”
Then there’s the scene the place the brothers search out Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy and Blue Lou Marini at Mrs Murphy’s (aka Aretha Franklin) Soul Meals Cafe.
Nate’s Deli at 807 W. Maxwell Road in Chicago served because the backdrop for the outside pictures of the cafe. The inside was created on a studio lot. As Jake and Elwood method the cafe, we’re handled to a efficiency of Growth Growth by Road Slim (performed by John Lee Hooker); harpist Huge Walter Horton (as Tampa Pete); Pinetop Perkins (as Luther Jackson) on electrical piano; Willie ‘Huge Eyes’ Smith on drums; guitarist Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson; and Calvin ‘Fuzz’ Jones on bass. That’s Chicago blues royalty performing in an space that has been eradicated ceaselessly by modernisation.
The scene is a bit of blues historical past. The brothers head into the cafe and encounter Mrs Murphy. Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy is the brief order prepare dinner within the kitchen; Blue Lou Marini is washing the soiled dishes.
Mrs. Murphy: “Could I enable you to boys?”
Elwood: “You bought any white bread?”
Mrs. Murphy: “Sure.”
Elwood: “I’ll have some toasted white bread please.”
Mrs. Murphy: “You need butter or jam on that toast, honey?”
Elwood: “No ma’am, dry. [“I love dry white toast,” Aykroyd tells us. “These days I like to take it with some American Michigan sturgeon caviar on it.”]
Mrs Murphy turns her consideration to Jake.
Jake: “Acquired any fried rooster?”
Mrs. Murphy: “Finest rattling rooster within the state.”
Jake: “Deliver me 4 fried chickens and a Coke.”
Mrs. Murphy: “You need rooster wings or rooster legs?”
Jake: “4 fried chickens and a Coke.”
Elwood: “And a few dry white toast please.”
Mrs. Murphy: “Y’all need something to drink with that?”
Elwood: “No ma’am.”
Jake: “A Coke.”
When she realises the brothers intend to lure her husband and dishwasher again on the street, the foot comes down.
“Now, you not going again on the street no extra. And also you ain’t enjoying any extra two-bit, sleazy dives. You’re dwelling with me now… and also you’re not gonna go sliding round together with your white hoodlum mates.”
After a smoking blast by her 1968 soul hit Assume, Aretha’s character loses her man to the mission from God. Blue Lou follows seconds later. “I pretended to be scared – I used to be presupposed to be,” says Matt Murphy on his confrontation with an offended, full-throttle Aretha Franklin. “However I used to be having a ball! I used to be nearly cracking up after I checked out her.”
Lou Marini remembers the times filming for a few causes. First there was a sensible joke: “The scene the place I used to be washing dishes within the Soul Meals Café, there have been 4 or 5 guys. Landis and me, a digital camera man, lighting man, sound man. Landis stated, ‘I would like you to do the dishes, do what you want with them, get offended, throw them, break them. No matter you do, don’t search for until I say minimize.’ I used to be washing an eternally very long time. I appeared up and so they’ve all cut up. I yelled and down the top on the espresso store I heard them cracking up.”
He was much less amused by his portrayal throughout the Assume routine. Some critics made reference to the truth that Marini’s head was out of shot as he danced on the cafe’s counter, enjoying his sax. He’d put a variety of effort into practising the nerve-wracking stunt.
“It was a bit daunting,” he says. “The counter was raised as much as 4 and a half ft up and was simply two ft extensive… and there have been pots and pans down beneath.”
The explanation his head was chopped? The set didn’t have a false ceiling. “The cameraman couldn’t use the angle as the highest was unsealed and the studio was in view,” says Marini. “Landis took me to see a screening of the scene, stated it was ‘spectacular’. He stated to me, ‘It was nice, proper?’ I stated it sucked. ‘I discovered to play and dance and you’ll’t see my head.’ I used to be advised, ‘You signed up for some huge cash and a bit head, and that’s what you bought.’”
The scene at Bob’s Nation Bunker (the place the waitress cheerfully informs the band they’ve each sorts of music: “nation and western”) sees the band incite a violent response from the patrons.
As bottles smash on the rooster wire that isolates the stage from the paying clients, the band change tack and play The Theme From Rawhide and Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man. The scene was primarily based on real-life experiences and as Steve Cropper advised Dan Aykroyd on the time, he had seen worse.
“I’ve seen guys shot, guys holding their guts and stomach after being stabbed, individuals hit on the top with baseball bats – a variety of blood within the car parking zone. By the point we did The Blues Brothers, Duck and I have been each seasoned musicians. Dan went spherical interviewing the band and placing bits of helpful data into the script.”
The story of ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues’ mission from God hit cinemas in 1980. The receipts for the ensemble expertise and all these wrecked vehicles busted the film’s finances by $10 million.
John Landis additionally encountered hassle getting The Blues Brothers into cinemas. As an example, Ted Mann, head of the Mann Theatres chain, was unconvinced that white movie-goers could be considering a bunch of outdated black musicians. He additionally apparently didn’t need blacks congregating in predominantly white areas to see it.
Finally, The Blues Brothers solely opened in half the theatres {that a} comparable dimension film would take pleasure in. Some critics hated the film for its skinny plot and reliance on automobile chases for leisure, however they have been within the minority. The completed product is a blast.
And regardless of Ted Mann and the critics’ greatest efforts, ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues discovered their viewers. The Blues Brothers made stars of Belushi and Aykroyd, permitting the latter to bankroll future box-office behemoths like Ghostbusters. It additionally reignited back-catalogue gross sales for James Brown, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker and the opposite legends that appeared within the film. Even blues and soul musicians that didn’t characteristic within the movie felt the good thing about the general public’s renewed curiosity of their model of music.
The invention of John Belushi’s lifeless physique on March 5, 1982 in Bungalow 3 on the Chateau Marmont on the Sundown Strip in Hollywood put paid to any notions of a sequel to the film. Belushi was solely 33 years outdated when he succumbed to the results of a speedball, a mixed hit of cocaine and heroin.
Aykroyd takes the chance to pay tribute to his late associate in crime by remembering one in every of his favorite scenes within the film – the try to steer Alan Rubin to give up his maitre’d put up at Chez Paul, the high-end restaurant the place “Even the fucking soup is ten {dollars}.”
“The scene with John catching the shrimps in his mouth, he missed just a few. I didn’t throw all of them. Landis threw some. John was like a seal! He may catch shrimps, sing, dance, he was an actual negotiator, actor, supervisor. He managed himself and the band brilliantly. A lady put an excessive amount of heroin into his injection and his lungs and abdomen have been already weak, and he or she did three years in jail for it. The world misplaced one in every of its biggest abilities ever on the age of 33.
“Possibly he was attempting to numb the previous, boring the current and search for consolation sooner or later. He discovered it there and it killed him.
“If he was right here now, he’d be a high director on Broadway, placing on performs with nice actors, a part of the theatre world. He was very literate in his theatrical pursuits.”
The temptation to make a sequel did ultimately show too sturdy and Landis and Aykroyd reconvened for the ill-fated Blues Brothers 2000 in 1997. Regardless of some nice musical performances, the absence of John Belushi was too large a gap to fill – even by John Goodman – and the film bombed. Aykroyd’s intentions, as ever, have been honourable.
“Getting the blues extra extensively recognized was a part of the message,” he says.
The manifesto is true there in Elwood’s monologue that kicks off the primary monitor on Briefcase Full Of Blues…
“Good night, girls and gents, and welcome to the Common Amphitheatre. Nicely, right here it’s, the late Nineteen Seventies, happening 1985. You already know, a lot of the music we hear in the present day is pre-programmed digital disco, we by no means get an opportunity to listen to grasp bluesmen practising their craft anymore. By the yr 2006, the music recognized in the present day because the blues will exist solely within the classical data division of your native public library. Tonight, girls and gents, whereas we nonetheless can, allow us to welcome, from Rock Island, Illinois, the blues band of ‘Joliet’ Jake and Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers.”
Due to ‘Joliet’ Jake, Elwood and their mission from God, The Blues Brothers band, even their ’74 Dodge Monaco cop automobile, the blues continues to be going sturdy.
This characteristic initially appeared in Basic Rock Presents The Blues challenge 7, revealed in June 2013.
