Off The Beaten Path
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No, Robbers Roost near Sedona, Arizona was not Black Bart's Hideout. But looking out from the cave carved into a mesa high about the desert plains, you can imagine him being there - waiting for the tell tale plume of dust from a Wells Fargo wagon loaded with gold.
U. S. Highway 61, known as the "Blues Highway," rivals Route 66 as one of the most famous roads in American music lore. The music known as the blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, nurtured on the blood, sweat and tears of African Americans toiling in the fertile fields along the mighty river. Early blues legends such as Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon took the sorrow and anguish of poor blacks in the Deep South and created a sound that would help ease their suffering.