You can’t go Memphis without visiting Sun Studio and Graceland. We even went down to check out Tupelo and the shack he was brought up in. There’s a whole industry built up around the Elvis religion.
Photography – Elvis Presley – Sun Studio – Memphis
Old recording tape machine and disc cutter.
Inside the studio – they still use it to record.
The roof is all up and down to create the baffles to get the right noise.
Howlin’ Wolf – Sam Philips greatest discovery
Outside the studio
Photography – Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country & R&B in the USA. Stax, Sun, Graceland, Nashville, BB King, Elvis
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 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
