The Blues Brothers were one of pop music’s wackiest flukes, hatched by Belushi and Aykroyd during their time on SNL. The idea of two comedians playing “ne’er-do-well musicians who wear sunglasses day ...

From the silver screen to the the River Valley, the Original Blues Brothers Band takes the Lee Creek Tavern stage inside Cherokee Casino & Hotel Roland for a Halloween concert at 9 p.m. Oct. 31.

Soon after the death of SNL's John Belushi in 1982, an odd occurrence took place in our neck of the woods. Stamford harmonica player Pat Dougherty awoke to discover that he had been possessed by ...

This morning we're marking one of the most momentous anniversaries in the history of show business. Twenty-five years ago today, a mass audience got its first look at a movie that was far more than a ...

Thirty-six years after the death of his close friend and bandmate, Dan Aykroyd paid a touching tribute to John Belushi with the opening scene of the otherwise forgettable Blues Brothers 2000. The 1998 ...

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Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...