Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum
by Memphis and the surrounding area is so full of music history – it is not that surprising that there are a lot of musical museums …
Tag: Musical History
Places dealing with the history of music
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 …