Down to the Crossroads - hellhounds on our trail
We rented a car and toured down Highway 61 to Clarksdale to see the Delta Blues Museum and then on to Indianola to see the B.B. King Museum. Both of these were quite spectacular with lots of original exhibits, memorabilia, pictures and films. We talked with the Communications Manager of the B.B. King who gave us the inside scoop of how it was developed, how much it cost and how important the museum is to Indianola's future. On the way back the GPS system in the car took us to the wrong place and we ended up about one hundred and eighty miles away - as a result we didn't get back to about one in the morning but got quite a good view of Arkansas and Mississippi at night. The next day we went to Nashville and caught up with The Grand Old Opry - a 390 mile (not kilometer) round trip. During this time Sharon got to see her first American bookshop - a Barnes and Noble. I had to drag her out of the store kicking and screaming. Today we drove around Memphis hitting bookshops and DVD/CD shops and ended up buying some great DVDs relating to Blues music which we have never seen in Australia. Memphis is amazing with music everywhere. We caught a great performance in a park, just two minutes away from where we are staying, and watched some great blues music free of charge. We also saw a couple of acts, again free of charge, at the Centre for Southern Folklore - a group of people dedicated to documenting and presenting the people, music and traditions of the region (check out their website at www.southernfolklore.com/ - especially their Archives section). All in all, a few days completely immersed in the Blues - how great is that? (PS: on our Nashville trip we stopped off at Loretta Lynne's Kitchen to have a bite to
eat where we met some touring dogs who travelled on a trailer like device attached to a motorbike and who loved to wear their goggles when on the road - check out the picture)
We rented a car and toured down Highway 61 to Clarksdale to see the Delta Blues Museum and then on to Indianola to see the B.B. King Museum. Both of these were quite spectacular with lots of original exhibits, memorabilia, pictures and films. We talked with the Communications Manager of the B.B. King who gave us the inside scoop of how it was developed, how much it cost and how important the museum is to Indianola's future. On the way back the GPS system in the car took us to the wrong place and we ended up about one hundred and eighty miles away - as a result we didn't get back to about one in the morning but got quite a good view of Arkansas and Mississippi at night. The next day we went to Nashville and caught up with The Grand Old Opry - a 390 mile (not kilometer) round trip. During this time Sharon got to see her first American bookshop - a Barnes and Noble. I had to drag her out of the store kicking and screaming. Today we drove around Memphis hitting bookshops and DVD/CD shops and ended up buying some great DVDs relating to Blues music which we have never seen in Australia. Memphis is amazing with music everywhere. We caught a great performance in a park, just two minutes away from where we are staying, and watched some great blues music free of charge. We also saw a couple of acts, again free of charge, at the Centre for Southern Folklore - a group of people dedicated to documenting and presenting the people, music and traditions of the region (check out their website at www.southernfolklore.com/ - especially their Archives section). All in all, a few days completely immersed in the Blues - how great is that? (PS: on our Nashville trip we stopped off at Loretta Lynne's Kitchen to have a bite to
eat where we met some touring dogs who travelled on a trailer like device attached to a motorbike and who loved to wear their goggles when on the road - check out the picture)
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