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This week we discuss The Blues Brothers, a classic movie of music, comedy, and car crashes. We’re joined by @sir_rachel from So You Want To Read Tolkien to basically make each other laugh for an hour. #PCDeprived
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1 comment on “Episode 167: The Blues Brothers with Rachel from So You Want To Read Tolkien”
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This movie is such a big part of my teen years! I was 14 when it came out (yes, it was my first R-rated film, too), and I am a Joliet, IL native. The fact that this movie opens at the Collins Street prison (Joliet has enough correctional facilities that we have to specify which one we’re referring to) sucked me in immediately. The music, the cameos, the jokes, the action scenes all made it a lifelong favorite.
When I got to college in Milwaukee four years later, a roommate’s father had been a Mt. Prospect cop and his car had been one of the Bluesmobiles, and my drama professor had portrayed one of the cops escorting Jake across the prison (his name is directly above Belushi’s in the end credits, “Gerald Walling, S.J.”). He had some fun anecdotes he was delighted to share when he found out I was from Joliet.
I believe the Country & Western bar was part of the popularity of western music that had begun in the late ‘70s and hit its peak about the same time as Blues Brothers with the release of Urban Cowboy. BTW, NW Indiana isn’t as southern as it is closer to Indianapolis, but it is a different world than Chicago is.
Images from this film keep popping up in modern culture. One of my favorite examples is the Hanson video for “Thinking ‘Bout Something,” which recreates the Ray Charles number on a Tulsa street, with Weird Al playing tambourine. The song itself is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmG0DqhfDbY