Tina Turner Museum (West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center)
by 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 …
Tag: Musical History
Places dealing with the history of music
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A Musical Trip to CMA Fest 2019 (Day 6 – 5th June 2019)
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 …
A Musical Trip to CMA Fest 2019 (Day 5 – 4th 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, …
A Musical Trip to CMA Fest 2019 (Day 4 – 3rd June 2019)
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 …
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments (Oxford)
Oxford is full of amazing collections. Many of them are driven by University institutes. This leads to two key advantages: they are well-driven and documented …
The Beatles Story – The Fab Four in Liverpool
What is more characteristic about Liverpool than John, Paul, George and Ringo? It is not too surprising that one of most beautiful areas of the …