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Suggested Listening for this Entry: Let me attack this three ways. First, for historical context, listen to “The Cheater” by Bob Kuban and the In Men. Second, for a feel of the music heard at this show, find your city’s biggest name wedding/bar mitzvah band and sit through their versions of “We Are Family” and “Celebration". Third, I can’t leave you readers with a bad musical taste in your mouths, so give a listen to the CD Rockin’ Eighty-Eights by St. Louis piano players Johnnie Johnson, Clayton Love and Jimmy Vaughn. Sugg [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 4th 2009 | 331 Views | [diary=357656]

More Dancing
The Dance of Life Halts Momentarily...
Bob Kuban

Suggested Listening for this Entry: Some classic country from the 1960s. "Hello Walls" & "Wine Me Up" by Faron Young and "The Cold, Hard Facts of Life" & "Sorrow on the Rocks" by Porter Wagoner. Suggested Food & Drink for this Entry: A sliced pork sandwich on white toast and a Pepsi. After a few hours of driving two lane roads along the Missssippi, exploring state parks in two states, and a rather sobering visit to downtown Cairo, I was ready for lunch. I didn't plan on eating at Shemwell's. In fact, I'd never heard of it. I just stumbled upon [View Full Entry]

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Published: January 28th 2009 | 116 Views | [diary=356979]

The BBQ Plate at Shemwell's
Maybe the Only BBQ in Town?
Shemwell's BBQ

Graceland
Graceland
The "mansion" itself really isn't that big. Move it to the suburban sprawl of Loudoun County, Virginia and no one would look at it a second time.
Suggested Listening for this Entry: "Heartbreak Hotel", "Don't Be Cruel", "Hound Dog" and "Crying In the Chapel" by Elvis Presley. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: To eat, a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. To drink, anything you think would help you wash down such a nasty sandwich. Unless you were born on the moon, you know the Legend of Elvis Presley….a poor white kid who was born in Mississippi, and spent his teen years in Memphis, combines elements of blues, country and gospel to invent rock and roll. His career explodes in the mid-1950’s, [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2008 | 300 Views | [diary=337290]

The Famous Gold Lame Suit
The Three Grammys Elvis Won
The King's Final Resting Place

Suggested Listening for this Entry: "Moody Blue", "Way Down" and "My Way" by Elvis Presley. A concert clip of Elvis performing "My Way" a few weeks before his death is attached below. If you need a chuckle and want to know what "really" happened to Elvis, listen to "The King Gets a Day Job" by the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Are there any situations where prescription drugs can be considered nourishment? While 1957 can be considered the zenith of Elvis’ career, 1958 can be considered the year when the seeds of Elvis’ undoi [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 10th 2008 | 292 Views | [diary=338743]

More Lisa Marie
Taking Care of Business in a Flash
Sincerely Elvis

Sam Phillips Avenue
Sam Phillips Avenue
also known as Union Avenue, home of the Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records.
Suggested Listening for this Entry:"Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats", "Howlin' Wolf Boogie" and "Moanin' At Midnight" by Howlin' Wolf and "Bear Cat" by Rufus Thomas. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: As Jackie Brenston sang in "Rocket 88", go around the corner and get a fifth, everbody in your car should take a little nip. Ike Turner, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Rufus Thomas, Junior Parker, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison. All American music legends who started their recording careers at a sma [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 27th 2008 | 133 Views | [diary=338846]


The Sun Studios
The Sun Studios
It's still hard to fathom how much influentinal and important music was recorded in this small building in less than 10 years.
Suggested Listening for this Entry:”That’s All Right”, “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, and “Good Rockin’ Tonight” by Elvis Presley. Then go back and listen to Arthur “Big Boy’ Crudup’s original version of “That’s All Right”, Bill Monroe’s original 1940’s version of “Blue Moon of Kentucky”, and Wynonie Harris’ version of “Good Rockin’ Tonight”. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Although nearly the same meal was suggested for the Rock N Soul Museum [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 30th 2008 | 171 Views | [diary=345715]

One of the Original Microphones
Elvis' High School Diploma

Suggested Listening for this Entry: Some Little Milton from his days on the Malaco Record Label in the 1990's and the early 2000's. Start with "The Blues is Alright", "Annie Mae's Cafe", "A Juke Joint in My House" and "She Know How to Wear a Hat". (A video clip from earlier in Little Milton's career is included at the end of this entry.) Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Anything you can smoke and cover in barbecue sauce. You’ll soon discover why. D.C. area blues guitarist Linwood Taylor once told me “it ain’t a party unless the cops come”. [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 26th 2008 | 119 Views | [diary=356721]

Ips Studies the Menu
The BBQ Sampler
Jmmy Hart

Suggested Listening for this Entry: Marshall Chapman's CD It's About Time.... It has very little to do with Memphis other than having a song that references Elvis and the Pyramid, but oh well. The CD was recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women in Nashville, so there probably were some former Memphis residents in the audience. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: Tamales....I didn't partake of any while in Memphis or the Delta, but there were signs for restaurants serving them all over. Maybe a reader could explain to me the Mid-South's apparent fas [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 1st 2008 | 34 Views | [diary=336744]

The Peabody Hotel
The Pyramid

Suggested Listening for this Entry: "Respect Yourself" by the Staples Singers. "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: None It's impossible for one person to tell the Stax story over the course of a few blog entries. I hope you, the reader, will visit the Stax Museum if you are ever anywhere near Memphis. As a music fan, it is one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had that did not involve seeing a live performance. At one point while touring the museum, the visitor goes thru a room [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2008 | 51 Views | [diary=338612]


The Fellas Outiside the Stax Museum
The Fellas Outiside the Stax Museum
after Ips and I had dropped some coin in the gift shop.
Suggested Listening for this Entry: "Starting All Over Again" by Mel and Tim. "Who's Making Love" by Johnnie Taylor. "Walk on By" and "Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes, a clip of which is included below. Suggested Food and Drink for this Entry: No food, just a forty of Schlitz Malt Liquor. (Unfortunately, Rufus Thomas' ad for Schlitz Malt Liquor isn't available on YouTube.) After the events late 1967 and early 1968, Stax found itself in a dire position and change was in order. The company was sold to Gulf and Western, co-founder Estelle Axton left the company and her b [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2008 | 42 Views | [diary=338285]




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