I just finished watching it. The reason for watching it is that the blues brothers mentioned in the blues chapter of Cambridge "The History of World Music" that the blues brothers used almost all blues-related music forms, making it the best promotional film. The plot is very funny and nonsensical, and many parts of it are black and humorous and destructive (the shooting cost is much higher) but I still want to talk about the music that it is rare to see ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and James brown guest appearances. The transitional manifestation of the generalized blues form transformation: the earliest bleak and simple accompaniment, to the big band type in the 1920s and 1930s, to the soul/R&B of Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, and some relatively pure country forms, and finally caught The jailhouse rock in prison has been counted as Elvis Presley's rock era. In short, the music is just right, and what is even more amazing is the atmosphere when Ray Charles started to play the piano and sing. There is also a combination of Gospel and tap dance swing that James Brown specially made in the church.
On the whole, it is a short introduction to blues, and most of the content is close to the later stage of development, especially in the early blues, there is less presentation, and the style is not pure and single but more concentrated after the forties. In fact, the effect is not as good as listening to the representative works of the main blues musicians alone, and it is still presented with fragmented and broken music information. It just makes people feel rhythmic in response to the occasion, and does not follow the history of music in a strict logical sense. (In the 20th century, American pop music was too messy to clarify the truth, and it was impossible to clearly distinguish the cause and effect.)
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