The Memphis Recording Service, Sun Studio or Sun Records (however you like to call it) is one of the most magical historic places of rock music. Elvis recorded his first song here and it is called to be the birthplace…
Tina Turner Museum (West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center)
On my very final stage on the road to the 2019 CMA Fest in Nashville, visiting the West Tennessee Heritage Center was the first stop I took en route. The place hosts several museums in one. The most important ones…
Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum
Memphis and the surrounding area is so full of music history – it is not that surprising that there are a lot of musical museums around as well. One of these is the Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum in the heart…
Elvis Presley’s Graceland – The Exhibitions
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…
Elvis Presley’s Graceland – The Mansion
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…
Memphis Music Hall of Fame
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…
Elvis Presley Birthplace (Tupelo MS)
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…
Gateway To The Blues (Tunica, MS)
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…