“A really painful song about how hard it is to lose friends. When I sing it, I think of John Belushi”: We asked Blues Brothers star Dan Aykroyd to give us his 11 favourite blues records, and he delivered

Dan Akyroyd posing for a photograph in sunglasses.

Ever since donning the iconic black hat, suit and shades of Elwood Blues in John Landis’ 1980 blockbuster The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd has been irrevocably associated with blues music. It’s a situation which could be painfully frustrating if the actor in question were not such a dyed-in-the-wool and well-informed hardcore fan of the genre. Catching up with Dan on a visit to the UK back in 2013, we asked him to choose his top 10 blues records. But he refused… and chose 11…