I just want to put in a plug for two great music cities: Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. I just got back from visiting both, where I saw The Grand Ole Opry, The Ryman, RCA Studio B, and Sun Records, among many other cool things.
If you're into roots rock and roll, there's no experience quite like standing in Sun Studios or RCA Studio B on the exact spots where legends like Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and hundreds of others recorded some of the biggest, most "important" hit records of our time. The studios are tiny but the magic is huge.
The Grand Ole Opry is cool, too, but it's the historic Ryman Theater that really speaks to you. And just about ALL the music in the Nashville honky tonks and the Memphis blues joints is a cut above what you'll hear in any other tourist city.
If you have the chance to make this trip, do it. And try to take in the National Civil Rights Museum while you're there, too.
If you're into roots rock and roll, there's no experience quite like standing in Sun Studios or RCA Studio B on the exact spots where legends like Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and hundreds of others recorded some of the biggest, most "important" hit records of our time. The studios are tiny but the magic is huge.
The Grand Ole Opry is cool, too, but it's the historic Ryman Theater that really speaks to you. And just about ALL the music in the Nashville honky tonks and the Memphis blues joints is a cut above what you'll hear in any other tourist city.
If you have the chance to make this trip, do it. And try to take in the National Civil Rights Museum while you're there, too.