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Head to Nashville's neon-lit Lower Broadway to immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of Honky-Tonk Row. Easy-to-read maps throughout, with exact prices, directions, opening hours, and other practical information. Also included are candid reviews of hotels and restaurants, pl…
Presents guidance and tools for visitors to Nashville and Memphis, including trip planning information, itineraries, lodging and dining suggestions for different budgets, and details on history, culture, and things to see and do.
Frommer's Complete GuidesAmerica's #1 bestselling travel seriesMore full-color guides than ever beforeFoldout maps in annual guidesOutspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips.
Describes what Graceland, the home Elvis Presley built in Memphis, tells about the late singer's life and personality.
Describes what Graceland, the home Elvis Presley built in Memphis, tells about the late singer's life and personality.
Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and Muddy Waters on his…
"It all started in 1949 when Memphis's own WDIA became the first radio station in the country to switch to all-black programming. After WDIA went off the air, WHBQ decided to capture some of this newly discovered black audience by putting "Daddy-O-Dewey" Phillips - the most popu…
Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and Muddy Waters on his…
The music that has been produced in Memphis over the past 100 years is as unique and diverse as the city itself. Growing out of the Mississippi Delta, the Memphis blues have been transported worldwide by such ambassadors as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf. Rock's first baby steps wer…
"Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers, seeking shelter…