After I dealt with visiting the Graceland Mansion in a separate posting, the second part of my review of Graceland deals with the numerous exhibitions available around the Graceland Visitor Center. This especially includes the two Elvis Presley airplanes. The…
Even if Elvis was born in Tupelo and there are so many other great musicians (which you can for example see in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame): Memphis is Elvis and Elvis is Memphis. No other star is a…
Nashville is the dominating super-city of music in Tennessee, despite there is so much musical history in Memphis as well. Not just the masterminds of blues, also acts like ZZ Top or Justin Timberlake have their musical roots in the…
Even more than 80 years after Elvis Presley’s birth, Tupelo in Mississippi is still dominated by memories of its most famous sons. You can still eat where “The King” loved to eat in his childhood, buy a guitar in the…
If you drive the US-61 between Tunica, Mississippi, and Memphis, you just cannot miss the iconic wooden building called Gateway To The Blues which is right next to the highway. Apart from a visitors center, it houses a small, but nice…
The final day of my trip report to Nashville. The tour is coming to an end, the next days, I will only commute between the Hotel and the heart of Nashville before I go back home on 10th June 2019.…
After driving quite a bunch of miles the two days before, 4th June was planned to be a sightseeing day in Memphis. No new hotel, no hours of driving – just enjoying the magic of Graceland and all the music…
3rd June 2019 on my trip to Nashville was “Elvis Presley Day”. Waking up less than a mile away from the place he was born and sleeping close to Graceland just made a day dedicated to the “King”. There was…