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Re:Live in Cook County Jail by woodruffw on Monday December 25, 2023 @08:43PM (#38768188)
Not mentioned anywhere in the article, but I've always wondered if this was the inspiration for the final (and first) scenes in The Blues Brothers[1] (which takes places almost entirely in Cook County).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ny6zn59x8

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Re:Live in Cook County Jail by fipar on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:14PM (#38768357)
It may have been!

It’s not mentioned on this article, but it is mention ed on this other one I also read today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Blue_Can_You_Get

(Scroll down to BB King versions; I couldn’t figure out how to link to that headline while on the phone).

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Re:Live in Cook County Jail by fipar on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:20PM (#38768388)
I should have watched the video you linked before answering, but I still think the fact that BB King performed as part of a fictional band for the movie means his (by then long) experience playing in jails could have inspired the scene you linked to.
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Re:Live in Cook County Jail by Kon-Peki on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:51PM (#38768539)
It’s probably a good bet that the scene was inspired by the album/concert.

But just to be pedantic, all the prison scenes were from the Joliet State Prison, which is definitely not in Cook County. The Joliet prison has its own history - it was built in the 1850s by prison labor, who quarried limestone from the site, and was open up until the early 2000s! There are tours from time to time, and a supposedly very good haunted house around Halloween.

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