Walking in Memphis

Put on my blue suede shoes and I

boarded the plane

Touched down the in land of the Delta Blues

In the middle of the pouring rain.

W.C. Handy - won't you look down over me

Yeah, I've got a first class ticket, but I'm as blue as a boy can be
Then I'm walking in Memphis
Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale

Walking in Memphis

But do I really feel the way I feel?

Saw the ghost of Elvis

On Union Avenue
Followed him up the gates of Graceland

Then I watched him walk right through

Now security they did not see him
They just hovered 'round his tomb
But there's a pretty little thing
Waiting for the king
Down in the jungle room


--Marc Cohn Walking in Memphis

I touched down in the land of the Delta Blues in the middle of the pouring rain.  Seemed appropriate somehow.  The next day was a gorgeous sunny day and I spent it walking around Memphis.  This is the city where country, blues, jazz, gospel and soul came together and gave us Rock and Roll.  The is so much musical history here I was on overload.  The food was great too!  I could spend a month here just to listen to the music on Beale Street.  Here's the tour in pictures:

"Without the cooperation of total resentment
On the part of the parents
Rock n Roll would have had
A much rougher time makin' it."
--Sam Phillips Sun Studios



Beale Street



Oh yeah!!

More on Beale

I took their word for it......

Beale Street

The Orpheum

November 6, 1934 - Memphis joins the
Tennessee Valley Authority

How do they know
they are Irish?

If they still make the guitar you've wanted since you
were 14, is it ok to spend $5K on it?  Even if you can't play it?

The Beale Street  Blues Band playing in the W.C. Handy Park
Good band to listen to while drinking a cold beer

The Mississippi shining like a National guitar

WDIA - the first all Black radion station

Now that's lawn deco I can relate to!!

Jazz player on Beale Street