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With this edition of our series, host Al Neff takes a quick look back at some of the events and circumstances that nearly silenced rock-n-roll just as it was gaining a stronghold within American culture. With Elvis Presley entering the Army as a draftee and the loss Buddy Holly to a plane crash in the late 1950s to go along with legal issues and controversies for Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, this edition of the podcast details how the emerging art form of rock music was on the ropes in its earliest days.

In the debut episode of In2 The Music, radio veteran and musicologist Al Neff hosts podcast listeners on a quick trip examining the many musical connections that can be found across Highway 61. While Bob Dylan made it famous in his 1965 song, Highway 61, as you’ll hear, is also the route taken by some of the most famous bluesman in music history. Al makes the case that Highway 61 should be considered as the backbone of American music.