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Fire & the Blues... Close your eyes for a minute and you might think Stevie Ray is alive and hanging out in central Illinois. Named after U.S. Route 61 –the Blues Highway running from Minnesota through Memphis to Louisiana – the trio of Ray Long, Andrew Lane and Lee Coulter write songs straight from experience. “To play the blues, you have to have lived the blues,” says Lane. These guys should know…with nearly 50 years of shared musical experience, they used to practice four hours a day, three days a week, before going to their full-time, second-shift jobs at a metal fabrication plant. These days, they’re enjoying opportunities to play with legendary musicians like Night Ranger, Saving Abel and Frank Hannon. But their dreams are just getting started. Someday, they hope to headline their own progressive blues tour. With aspirations of being the “best blues band since B.B. King,” Highway 61 puts their pain & their passion into every guitar lick and bass line. Long says, “Music is the first love I ever had…I can play in front of two people or 2,000 people just the same.”