The open-tuning finger-picking guitar that delta bluesman Skip James played was so unusual that the guitar style is now called “Bentonia” after the town he lived in.

Dan Aykroyd rented an old bar at 282 Hudson for the coveted NYC parking space, near the SNL studio, and operated an unlicensed blues bar for the cast and crew, including instruments for jams. It was here that he and John Belushi developed their “Blues Brothers” characters — and their lifelong Blues passion.

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