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Dan Aykroyd revisits the Blues Brothers' remarkable legacy in new Audible Original

The shades are on, the skinny tie is knotted and the fedora is perched just so — Dan Aykroyd is ready to look back.

Listeners will learn that “SNL” creator and producer Lorne Michaels wasn’t a fan of the fictional brothers’ act and that their rise was something of a disruption for record labels and movie studios. The concept was admittedly a little odd: Two white comedians fronting a first-rate blues band with the express purpose of celebrating a musical form that had grown dusty. The movie was also filled to the brim with blues stars — like Donald “Duck” Dunn, Steve Cropper, Matt Murphy — and performances by Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Ray Charles, who were struggling through fallow periods.

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