Highway 61 is an award-winning one-hour program featuring the best in blues music and culture: past, present and future. Scott Barretta, longtime host of Highway 61, is a writer and researcher for the Mississippi Blues Trail, instructor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, former editor of Living Blues magazine, and author of Mississippi: State of the Blues. Highway 61 airs weekly on Saturday night at 10pm and again on Sunday at 6pm on MPB Think Radio. Barretta resides in Greenwood, Mississippi