Introducing…The Blues Tour

I want to give a very quick introduction to my upcoming trip, currently codenamed ‘The Blues Tour’ - I’m sure I’ll come up with a better name at some point in the future.

The Trip
My dad turns 60 in March. To celebrate, he, my brother and I are doing a blues tour from Austin, TX to Chicago, IL. It’s a tight schedule packing in quite a distance in just two weeks.

Planning
We still have planning to do, but I’ve very excited. We’ll be taking in as many blues roots destinations as we can along the way, mainly:

• Austin
• Memphis
• Clarksdale
• Jackson
• Nashville
• Chicago

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The route will follow (loosly), the old Route 61 which is the blues highway from New Orlean to Chicago. Famous sites include the Crossroads in Clarksdale where legend has it that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to become a great guitarist. We also plan to visit the Gibson guitar factory (Nashville) and maybe even the Jack Daniels factory for a bit of Rock and Roll.

Road Trip
Road trips are something of a tradition in America so it seems, and I think we have great ingredients for a fantastic trip. I plan to blog and tweet along the way and hopefully do some good depth of writing on the experiences along the way.

More to follow on our plans, but if you have any tips to share please do let me know!

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