Links

Sites to see

Favorite places to visit on the Web and on the road. Photographs by Graham McKeen, taken for Highway 61.

A rural road sign

Publishing
Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Crown Publishers
W.W. Norton & Company
University Press of Florida
Chicago Review Press

The grave of Charley Patton

Writers
Kelley Benham
Rick Bragg
John Capouya
Michael Connelly
Tom Corcoran
Bill DeYoung
Tim Dorsey
Bob Kealing
Mark Kramer
Dick Lehr
Thomas McGuane
Terry Southern
Tim Steil
Anita Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
Randy Wayne White
Tom Wolfe
Mitchell Zuckoff

Journalism
American History
The Boston Globe
Creative Loafing
The New York Times
The Miami Herald
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
The Power of Narrative Conference (Boston University)
Rolling Stone
The Tampa Bay Times
The Washington Post

The crossed blue guitars erected at the intersection of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale — supposedly the site of the crossroads where Robert Johnson bargained with Satan.

Popular culture
Center for Southern Folklore
Country Music Television
Barry Cuda
Bob Dylan
Delta Blues Museum
Experience Music Project
The Internet Movie Database
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Stax Museum
Sun Studios
Wolfgang’s Vault
World’s Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band

For more Key West dining suggestions (and recommendations for lodging and fun stuff to do), please see my Key West Travel Guide. Click on the postcard to see it.


Travel
Several of these places are featured in Highway 61 and Mile Marker Zero
Blueberry Hill (St. Louis)
Broadway Oyster Bar (St. Louis)
Does Eat Place (Greenville, Miss.)
Dyer’s Burgers (Memphis)
European Travel
Ground Zero Blues Club (Clarksdale, Miss.)
Half Shell Raw Bar (Key West)
Joe T. Garcia’s (Fort Worth)
Lambert’s Cafe (Sikeston, Mo.)
Leinenkugel’s Beer (Chippewa Falls, Wis.)
Poole’s BBQ (Ellijay, Ga.)
Sleeman Brewery (Guelph, Ontario)