After New Orleans we ride to Vicksburg,Mississippi.There is museum where is old steam ship from civil war called USS Cairo.There was 7 of them but this is only one left.It sunk down during the war time but they found and raised in 1964.
Mississippi is blues music state.It all begin here.There is hundreds of places to visit if you are interesting about blues music.We visit place called devil´s crossroads.That was in Clarksdale.Story tells that Robert Johnson sold his soul to devil because he wanted to be better guitar player.
We ride to Memphis,Tennessee using interstate highway 55 .At Copiah County this highway was named by Robert Johnson,they call it Robert L. Johnson memorial Blues highway!
At Mississippi we also visited blues museum in Tunica.
Many rock singers like Elvis,Jerry Lee Lewis,Johnny Cash etc start their career here .Music is everything in Memphis.We visit also at Sun Studio.It is museum nowadays.It was guided tour at museum.Many famous artist have recorded for Sun records.They let us borrow same microphone
what Elvis was using when he recorded That´s all right mama!!
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| Sunset at Memphis |
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| That´s all right mama! |
That was Memphis ,one of the cooliest towns ever,we liked very much.All music we hear nowadays
have very big influence of Memphis.This was place were rock and roll was born.
After Memphis we take Interstate 40 to Nashville,it is also known as Music Highway.
We take hostel nearby lower Broadway also known as Honky Tonk Street.That is a street were all rock and country clubs are.Almost every club have live country bands playing every day here.
We visit Johnny Cash museum.That is place to visit if you are in Nashville.
In Nashville there is one park and there is walk of fame.It is walking street where is signs of famous rock/country singers.There is lot flowers too which are named by songs or artists.
They still make it same way like they make it 150 years ago.They have more than 80 big houses where they keep barrels.Each house have they have 20 000 barrels and one barrel is 55 gallons.
Now we talking about lot of whiskey!There was many of good stories about mr. Jack Daniels when we were at factory tour.One story I tell here.Jack Daniels wake up very early every morning and start to work.One morning he was at his office and he try to open safety box but he forgot combination
and could not open it.He get angry and kick it very hard and broke his big toe.He did not go to doctor ,he wait 2 weeks and when toe was so bad that he could not take any pain anymore then he visited doctor.But that was too late ,big toe was so bad infected that they needed cut it away.After next 2 years infection at his leg getting worst and worst so they needed to cut more and more.Finally they cut his hole leg.Those days they did not have so much medicine for infection.After they cut his leg infection was so bad that his blood was poisoned and he died.If you want learn something:DON´T GO WORK TOO EARLY!
Stay strong!Ana and Per
