After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

The scene in which the band appears in a sauna, clad only in towels, is an allusion to the cover photo on the 1973 Blood Sweat & Tears music album "No Sweat", in which the BST band appears in a sauna in identical pose. Lou Marini and Tom Malone, two of the Blues Brothers Band members, were also in BST and appear in both sauna scenes.

[Sister Mary Stigmata hits Elwood with her stick]


Elwood:
Ow, you fat penguin!

Continuity: During the actual drawbridge jump, the two halves of the bridge are much closer together and at a slightly lower angle than they were moments before, and have momentarily stopped moving.

Performed by Elmore James
Courtesy of Trip Records