Highway 61
Blues Trail route
Highway 61 is a major north-south U.S. route running from New Orleans to the Minnesota-Canada border, passing through the Mississippi Delta.
Its cultural significance far exceeds its practical one—the highway became synonymous with the Great Migration of Black Americans northward and the birthplace of the blues.
Bob Dylan's 1965 album *Highway 61 Revisited* cemented its place in American mythology as a road of transformation and escape.
- bluesMournful American music genre
- DylanWelsh masculine name
- MississippiSouthern state or major river
- Mississippi RiverLongest North American watercourse
- crossroadsMeeting of routes
Bob Dylan · deal with the devil · Delta · Robert Johnson · devil · Duluth · Memphis · Route · road trip · asphalt · roadhouse · juke joint · acoustic guitar · guitar · soul · thunder · rolling · wandering
- BluesB.B. King, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, twelve bar blues, delta blues
- highwaysfreeway, freeways, expressway, interstate, interstates
- Bob DylanAll Along the Watchtower, Hurricane, I Want You, discography, songwriting
- Mississippi DeltaClarksdale, Cleveland, Greenville, Greenwood, Indianola
- MississippiJackson, Biloxi, Gulfport, Tupelo, Vicksburg
Highway 61back alley
Passage behind buildings
cul-de-sac · residential street · dirt road · country lane · side street
Highway 61Route 66
Historic cross-country highway
Pacific Coast Highway · Appalachian Trail · Mulholland Drive
Highway 61hometown
One's place of origin
homestead · front porch · family farm · ancestral home · settlement