Eighteen years after the events of the first Blues Brothers, Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is released from prison. Despite the absence of his late brother, Jake (John Belushi), Elwood sets out to reassemble the Blues Brothers Band to help a wayward orphan (J. Evan Bonifant). Along the way, he enlists bartender "Mighty" Mack McTeer (John Goodman) to fill in for Jake and jams with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and Blues Traveler.