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    Blues Highway Blues
    Blues Highway Blues
    Blues Highway Blues
    Audiobook11 hours

    Blues Highway Blues

    Written by Eyre Price

    Narrated by Christopher Price

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Winner of the Best Book of the Year awarded by Blues411 Radio

    Music mogul Daniel Erickson’s life has come to a perilous crossroads. Literally. He has a ruthless pair of killers on his tail and is chasing a million dollars that he owes a Russian mobster.

    Standing along the same Mississippi highway where legend claims that bluesman Robert Johnson traded his immortal soul for matchless command of the guitar, Daniel finds himself on a path that parallels the evolution of American music from the Mississippi Delta to New Orleans and on to Memphis, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, the Jersey Shore, New York, and Seattle.

    At every stop, Daniel’s tour gets more dangerous with the hit men closing in, an FBI agent obsessed with his capture, and a rogue motorcycle gang hunting him down. Blues Highway Blues, Eyre Price’s debut novel, is a compelling and unique combination: part edge-of-your-seat road trip across America and part examination of the music that comprises its soundtrack.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 26, 2012
    ISBN9781469205403
    Blues Highway Blues
    Author

    Eyre Price

    Eyre Price has travelled the Blues Highway, from Bob Dylan’s boyhood Minnesota home all the way to Professor Longhair’s shrine in New Orleans. With his son by his side, he’s made pilgrimages to Graceland, Sun Studios, Stax, and Chess Records. He’s stood at the crossroads where legend says Robert Johnson sold his soul, and he’s walked the alley between the Ryman and Hank William’s favorite honky tonk. The result is Blues Highway Blues, a novel reflecting his passion for American music, from the Delta’s blues to Seattle’s grunge. Eyre and his wife, Jaime, live in central Illinois (for now), where they are raising their son to have a wandering heart and a musical ear.

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      Nelson DeMille once said, "We're all pilgrims on the same journey -- but some pilgrims have better road maps." It's that sensibility that grounds Eyre Price's debut novel, "Blues Highway Blues," and it's the map of a century of American music that underpins a wild, offbeat, violent and ultimately rewarding journey of reluctant self-discovery for Price's pilgrim, disgraced Los Angeles music promoter Daniel Erickson. In the twisted wreckage of sacrificing his family and nearly his life on the irreparably warped altar of the popular song, Erickson gambles what's left of his future on a doomed dive into reality television production funded by a heartless Russian gangster's million dollars. Erickson's venture fails monumentally, and he'll have to surrender to the Russian the secret cash stashed in Erickson's home safe to buy himself and his estranged son long lives. Ungraciously accompanied by a couple of the Russian's thugs, Erickson opens his safe only to find a compact disc where his own million bucks used to hide. But it's not a total loss -- the CD has a blues song whose peculiar lyrics point Erickson towards the Mississippi Delta crossroads where legendary bluesman Robert Johnson purportedly traded his soul to the devil for guitar mastery. The song hints Johnson's crossroads is where Erickson will discover his heisted treasure. His straits beneath dire and sinking fast, Erickson slips his handlers and begins the long, strange trip to the Delta and beyond, pursued throughout by scary monsters and super creeps. With an occasional leg up from someone not quite of this world, Erickson finds himself propelled on a fiendish scavenger hunt through America's musical meccas; first along the so-called "Blues Highway" from New Orleans to Memphis, and then to Seattle via Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York, desperately following a cross-country trail of cryptic lyrical breadcrumbs to reclaim his money and his soul before he loses them both too soon."Blues Highway Blues" will appeal to fans of both thrillers, and American music. Price knows both subjects well, and aptly weaves them into a droll and entertaining morality play hinged on a simple truth: we all have our crossroads to tread, so be sure to tread them well.