The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers was a rhythm and blues band fronted by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in character. Belushi (as vocalist Joliet Jake Blues) and Aykroyd (as harpist Elwood Blues) were both members of the original cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live. The Blues Brothers and their alternate identities first appeared in 1977

Blues Brothers 2000

In 1998, Blues Brothers 2000 was released to theaters. It featured John Goodman singing with Aykroyd and cameos by Blues Traveler, B.B. King, Erykah Badu, Junior Wells, Steve Lawrence, Taj Mahal, Lonnie Brooks, James Brown, Eric Clapton, Nia Peeples, Darrell Hammond, Steve Winwood, Eddie Floyd, Paul Shaffer, Billy Preston, Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Dr. John, Joshua Redman, Lou Rawls, Travis Tritt, Jimmie Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and many others, many of whom featured as members of the fictional band The Louisiana Gator Boys. The featured car in the new film was a Ford Crown Victoria, replacing the Dodge Monaco as the new Bluesmobile.

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1998 - John Goodman - Blues Traveler - B.B. King - Erykah Badu - Junior Wells - Steve Lawrence - Taj Mahal - Lonnie Brooks - James Brown - Eric Clapton - Nia Peeples - Darrell Hammond - Steve Winwood - Eddie Floyd - Paul Shaffer - Billy Preston - Koko Taylor - Aretha Franklin - Bo Diddley - Isaac Hayes - Dr. John - Joshua Redman - Lou Rawls - Travis Tritt - Jimmie Vaughan - Wilson Pickett - The Louisiana Gator Boys - Ford Crown Victoria

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Blues Brothers 2000 picks up 18 years after The Blues Brothers with Elwood being released from prison, this time a rather high-tech private prison rather than the old Illinois state prison depicted in the first film. He learns that Jake has passed away and the orphanage the two had saved in the first film is no more. He takes a job as an announcer in a nightclub, where he discovers that the bartender (played by John Goodman) has singing talent, while getting on the bad side of the Russian mafia who have been demanding payoffs from the nightclub. After the Russian mafia burn down the club, Elwood resolves to put the band back together once again with John Goodman's character as his new partner and a 10-year old orphan named Buster also tagging along. The band travels to several locations shown in the first film with a depiction of how they have changed in the intervening years (Bob's Country Bunker for example is now Bob's Country Kitchen, a family restaurant). Finally they head south to Louisiana with the intention of entering a battle of the bands held at the home of a voodoo practitioner named Queen Moussette.

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Private prison - Nightclub - Bartender - Russian mafia - Orphan - Louisiana - Voodoo

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