Day 12 April 7 2012

Another busy day in Memphis. After a pleasant drive into the city we had enough time to see the old Stax Museum, home of the Stax recording studio that went bust after MLK was assasinated. It did recordings for Isaac Hayes and Ike and Tina Turner. It is now home to a charter school for middle level and high school kids, and a School of music.
Next we visited the National Civil Rights Museum that has incorporated the Lorraine Hotel.
We then drove a little bit to the home of the Memphis Recording Service and soon after became Sun Studios.

The scene on a fateful day on April 4th, 1968

The very first guitar belonging to Elvis is at Sun Studios.

Million Dollar Quartet" is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.

Rockabilly Tom trying to get his first recording using the very first michrophone Elvis used in 1954.

On the other side of the barricades, in the middle of the street, in the Middle of Beale Street in Memphis, is where Alice and I shared a bit of the first dance we have had since my hip surgery in November. You know that saying, sing like nobody is listening, dance like nobody is watching...tomorrow we say goodbye to Memphis and on to Branson, MO