Photography – Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country & R&B in the USA. Stax, Sun, Graceland, Nashville, BB King, Elvis

The Mississippi Delta and Louisiana was the place that all Modern Music sprung from. The Blues, Cajun, Rockabilly, Country, Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll. This was the fertile melting pot. I was lucky enough to chase it all down,

This is the hotel we stayed at in Memphis.

This is Sun Studios with its Pink Cadillac outside. Where Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Sonny Burgess and Billy Lee Riley recorded.

This is Stax studio – the first integrated music – home of real Soul – Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Booker T & the MGs, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave,

This is the Gibson guitar factory

This is BB King’s Blues club in Memphis on Beale Street

Highway 61 the home of the Blues. Where Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads and Son House taught him how to p;lay.

On to Nashville – home of Country

The Ryman – home of the Grand ole Opry where Elvis performed

 

Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame

Elvis’s Cabin in Tupelo where he grew up.   

Graceland