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The Big Picture It’s hard to believe The Blues Brothers first cruised into theatres with their signature black suits, fedoras, and sunglasses while driving around Chicago to some of the best music more than 40 years ago. The John Landis-directed buddy comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as the unforgettable “Joliet” Jake and Elwood Blues on a “mission from God” has become a timeless classic critiquing societal norms and celebrating blues, soul, and brotherhood.
AYKROYD: There’s so much there to be grateful for. First of all, for African American culture, for the songwriters and the venerated artists that I grew up with and loved as a kid. Starting there. Then the friendship with John , Lorne Michaels, SNL, the recruiting of the band, and Judy , John’s wife, who was of the tripod and the whole structure and was our fellow Blues Sister. I’m so grateful for all of that.
AYKROYD: Well, guess what: the Audible team. First of all, look at those compilations they’ve done! What a spectacular job Amazon Audible has done with the compilations and the executions of the speeches, the music, and all of that. In fact, I really didn’t have to do any condensing. I handed them a cradle to the present-day manuscript, starting where I grew up in Hull, Quebec, and right to where we still play today. I had a big chunk of my life there that they did not use, but they took.
The music is such an integral part of not just the Blues Brothers’ journey but also your relationship with John, as we hear in the Audible Original. If you could sum up your experience from the film’s humble beginnings to the grandeur of this documentary in a song, which song would you choose? AYKROYD: Let me say that I did write a script called Soul Sisters, about two colleges — I should make them college professors now — who were devoted to the blues and wanted to go to Mississippi on a pilgrimage, and they get involved in stuff that’s going on down there. And, of course, I would love to work with Dana anytime. She’s so great. But as far as Elwood on the road doing it again, we’ve seen two iterations.
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