U.S. Route 61
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Oct 11, 2026
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John Lennon's financial backing was actually under a pseudonym so that the spotlight went directly to her and not to him.
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In 1969, the iconic Mr. Muddy Waters was involved in a car crash on Highway 61 near Dundee, Mississippi, where a tire blew on his station wagon.
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The accident unfortunately killed three passengers in the vehicles involved, and it left the blues icon hospitalized with multiple fractures.
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In 1975, the legendary late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, which at this time was actually just called Saturday Night, premiered on NBC television.
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Sam said, tell me quick, man, I gotta run.
Chris GregoryHOST
Howard just pointed with his gun and said, that way down Highway 61.
Chris GregoryHOST
You'd have written that too if you'd sang Key to the Highway as much as me.
Chris GregoryHOST
And there's another quote from Dylan from Chronicles, his sort of autobiography, Chronicles Volume 1.
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Chris GregoryHOST
It might be said that each new or adapted version of a song contains all the previous versions.
Chris GregoryHOST
Even as his ability in composing melodies and lyrics has grown over the years, Dylan has retained this ethos in his songwriting.
Chris GregoryHOST
Highly original and poetic compositions such as Highway 61 Revisited, Pledging My Time, Don't Think Twice It's Alright, can all be said to contain echoes of previous songs, linking Dylan's oeuvre to that of the folk and blues traditions, and thus making those songs even more resonant.
Chris GregoryHOST
The early blues performers who had limited opportunities to record placed great emphasis on developing their songs through live performances.
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Old Soul Society will bring a kaleidoscope of folk-rock soul, blues, and other homegrown flavors to town, according to a city news release.
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The concert will be held Wednesday, October 14th, in the century-old Grantland Theater, 218 South Madison Street, as part of the ongoing Highway 61 concert series.
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The performance will feature the trio version of the band led by Derek Romanach- Romanay- Romaresh.
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[inhales] Excuse me.
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Admission is $15 cash only.
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Typical movie concessions like popcorn, candy, and soft drinks will be available, as well as alcoholic beverages, also cash only.
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Highway 61 concerts happen on the second Wednesday every month.
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The series began in the spring in an effort to revitalize the historic downtown Lancaster venue.
Raven AdamsHOST
We enjoyed a fun family weekend with no other weird insects.
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On the way home, I realized that most of Highway 61 in northern Minnesota is a full highway with wide shoulders and the tree lines way back from the road the entire way.
Raven AdamsHOST
At no point do trees completely overhang the road.
Raven AdamsHOST
In fact, most of the trees are tall evergreens that just grow straight up.
Raven AdamsHOST
The drive from St. Paul to Toft is Highway 61 the entire way.
Raven AdamsHOST
There's no way that I could have taken a wrong turn or ended up on the wrong road.
Raven AdamsHOST
And yet, the road on which I drove home looked nothing like the one that I drove up in in the middle of the night.
Wesley SmithGUEST
Sure.
Steve AzarHOST
Because this argument, a- and it hadn't sounded like, uh, any sort of Hatfield and McCoy or any even, even these sort of like, um, an argument as much as discussions at times of Dockery versus the Highway 61/49 split where Abe's Barbecue is on.
Steve AzarHOST
Uh, right here, if you go and you talk to ChatGPT or some of these things, it says the crossroads myth.
Steve AzarHOST
Legend claims blues pioneer Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the intersection of Highway 61 and 49 in Clarksdale to master the guitar.
Steve AzarHOST
That's what that says.
Wesley SmithGUEST
Right.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
He dismissed them all as the products of too much caffeine and not enough sleep.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The only spirits on Highway 61, the legendary Blues Highway, were the ones in the songs on the radio and the bourbon bottles in the juke joints.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
His Peterbilt, whom he called Old Maude, was a sanctuary, a fortress of steel and logic against the weirdness of the world.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
But on this particular Tuesday, as he rumbled south through the Mississippi Delta, the world was getting weird all on its own.
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Earl frowned, a knot of unease tightening in his stomach.
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He glanced at the road, his wipers fighting a losing battle against the deluge.
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He was on Highway 61, he was sure of it.
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But through the sheets of rain, the familiar four-lane asphalt seemed narrower, the shoulders overgrown and wild.
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Minnesota rewards travelers willing to explore both its big-city energy and its quiet, water-covered north.
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The North Shore Scenic Drive along Highway 61 hugs Lake Superior's rocky shoreline, passing waterfalls, lighthouses, and dramatic overlooks for nearly the entire stretch up toward the Canadian border.
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The Great River Road follows the Mississippi from its humble beginning at Itasca State Park, tracing the river through forest and farmland before it grows into the massive waterway most people picture.
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The Gunflint Trail winds deep into the Boundary Waters region, offering genuinely remote forest scenery most travelers never expect this far into the Midwest.
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So a weekday visit or advance booking helps stretch your budget further.
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Minnesota's major interstates, I-35, I-94, and I-90, offer wide, well-maintained routes connecting the Twin Cities to the rest of the state comfortably for larger rigs.
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The North Shore's Highway 61 is genuinely scenic, but narrows in spots, so a bit of extra caution helps on the busier summer weekends.
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Northern Minnesota's forest roads near the Boundary Waters are quieter and slower, so plan extra time if you're heading up that way with a larger vehicle.
Richard SyrettGUEST
And so the legend is, in more modern times, Robert Johnson... on a moonless night, would arrive at a crossroads.
Richard SyrettGUEST
In this case, it's Highway 61, and I believe it's U.S. Route 49 that goes through Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Richard SyrettGUEST
There's a marker there now.
Kara MosherHOST
Warning, stay away.
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She enjoyed sex with men, women, or a combination of both from time to time, supposedly.
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On this date in 1937, at the age of 43, she was injured in a violent automobile accident while traveling down U.S. Route 61 near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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The Packard she was riding in, which was driven by her companion Richard Morgan, collided at high speed with a truck that had stopped.
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It severely crushed the entire right side of her body and nearly severed her arm.
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