Blues Highway Blues

by Eyre Price, Christopher Price (Read by)

Overview

Winner of the Best Book of the Year awarded by Blues411 Radio

Music mogul Daniel Erickson’s life has come to a perilous crossroads. Literally. He has a ruthless pair of killers on his tail and is chasing a million dollars that he owes a Russian mobster.

Standing along the same Mississippi highway where legend claims that bluesman Robert Johnson traded his immortal soul for matchless command of the guitar, Daniel finds himself on a path that parallels the evolution of American music from the Mississippi Delta to New Orleans and on to Memphis, Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, the Jersey Shore, New York, and Seattle.

At every stop, Daniel’s tour gets more dangerous with the hit men closing in, an FBI agent obsessed with his capture, and a rogue motorcycle gang hunting him down. Blues Highway Blues, Eyre Price’s debut novel, is a compelling and unique combination: part edge-of-your-seat road trip across America and part examination of the music that comprises its soundtrack.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501291845
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	A Crossroads Thriller , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Eyre Price has travelled the Blues Highway, from Bob Dylan’s boyhood Minnesota home all the way to Professor Longhair’s shrine in New Orleans. With his son by his side, he’s made pilgrimages to Graceland, Sun Studios, Stax, and Chess Records. He’s stood at the crossroads where legend says Robert Johnson sold his soul, and he’s walked the alley between the Ryman and Hank William’s favorite honky tonk. The result is Blues Highway Blues, a novel reflecting his passion for American music, from the Delta’s blues to Seattle’s grunge. Eyre and his wife, Jaime, live in central Illinois (for now), where they are raising their son to have a wandering heart and a musical ear.

Editorial Reviews

Like a Muscle Shoals guitar lick that you can’t get out of your head, Eyre Price has penned a debut novel that you can’t put down. You’ll want to go down to the crossroads to finish Blues Highway Blues.” —Rick Robinson, Grand Prize Winner at the London Book Festival for Writ of Mandamus

“A thrilling novel celebrating the Blues as the root of modern American music.” —Dave Beardsley, co-founder National Blues Museum

“Eyre Price deftly weaves page-turning action, suspense, and humor into a top-notch primer on the history of modern American music. As a music lover and reverent fan of great story-telling, I thoroughly enjoyed the Blues Highway Blues thrill-ride, all the way through.” —Laura Roppe, award-winning singer-songwriter and author of Rocking the Pink

“By turns heartbreaking, funny, and terrifying, Blues Highway Blues tells the story of a jaded music promoter whose fate is tied to a sadistic Russian mobster, a pair of mismatched hit men, and a mysterious old bluesman who is more than he seems. With pitch-perfect prose, Eyre Price weaves humor, horror, and a touch of magic into an epic adventure that keeps the reader wondering what lies at the end of the Blues Highway-redemption or damnation?” —Jaden Terrell, author of the Jared McKean mysteries

From the Publisher

This debut novel is a thriller with lots of characters and moving parts. Its weak plot, however, isn’t helped much by narrator Christopher Price. Furthermore, the character definition is inadequate in both the written and vocal forms. There are many disparate voices in this work, and Price tries to portray too many of them individually. Often the voices don’t fit the characters. The Southern drawls, in particular, are way off, and the voices of blacks are hard to hard to distinguish from those of whites. Still, the Russian mobster’s voice works, and Price succeeds with most of the females as well. Overall, his pacing matches that of the story. M.C. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2012 - AudioFile