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...Recorded in Memphis, these songs from southern Italy are transported to the American Deep South, and the ghosts of Beale Street haunt the record, along with some Sun Studios tremolo....
...Butler is on screen almost constantly, playing Elvis from his early-1950s-style epiphany outside his local tailors, Lansky Bros of Beale Street, Memphis, to the jumpsuit years and the overwrought Vegas shows...
...Memphis is, along with Atlanta, central to the story of black America....
...The Beale Street clubs are jammed with tourists, the restaurants are full and the music history attractions — Sun Studios, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, the Civil Rights Museum (located at the Lorraine...
...Dozens of museums and live music venues reflect the city’s musical past. Many can be found along Beale Street, a popular thoroughfare in Downtown Memphis, lined with nightclubs, restaurants and shops....
...After returning from service in the second world war, King hitchhiked to Memphis where his cousin Bukka White, also a blues guitarist, lived: “Every day on Beale Street to me was like a community college...
...Proudly integrated in a segregated era – half black, half white – Booker T & the MG’s were the house band of the storied Memphis labels Stax and Volt....
...in Memphis, with Noah Lewis blowing a mean harmonica The Masked Marvel – not a superhero, but a pseudonym for Charley Patton, widely held to be the father of the Delta blues Alabama Sacred Harp Singers...
...The song Handy wrote in Pee Wee’s Saloon on Beale Street was called “Mr....
...James Baldwin once entitled a novel If Beale Street Could Talk. Memphis, a rollicking new Broadway musical at the Shubert, might be subtitled If Beale Street Could Sing....
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