We remain in Tennessee, to join the Mississippi has Memphis. And that is important, since the city has developed grace and with this majestic river, the Nile-American these fools have even built an ugly glass pyramid ... The inhabitants, just revering the river, had the great idea to make a reply to 1/2000th that can be followed and dip his feet. I took great pictures to accompany my paper boat, and had intended to make a long statement on this important river, but my photos have disappeared under circumstances that we will see later. Too bad for you, you just have to translate the blog of Tom Sawyer
Above all, we come to Memphis for the music. Home of the Blues & Birthplace of Rock 'n Roll : BB King Elvis Presley. So I carry my unbearable long exposes on Music. We all know that
Blues lot of cotton fields, and is a black music, if any. Difficult to determine the birth, but WC Handy is widely regarded as the patriarch (circa 1915). In the meantime, Beale Street , right Memphis , is called "The Main Street of America's Negro"-although the shops are run by whites, generally Jews or Italians, who are half segregated, so make good link. The street that will spend the biggest names, WC Handy Duke Ellington, and even give her name BB King (look for the cause will!). Sometimes, the music combines black and white, lives around or Juke Box just appear. But it's the radio that popularized popularize music and send waves to the whole nation. Began in 1925 The Grand Ole Opry , radio show Nashville, representing the genre of Country . In 1948, WDIA was the first black radio and discover the world BB King: One of the 1st DJs ... Meanwhile, WHBQ, competing radio station, sending the Country very white and respectable: Patsy Montana, Minnie Pearl, Blackwood Brothers, and many other legends unknown to us. But the white kids hang less and less, and may turn to the music of savages: we must qqchose.
It's a genius producer (Sam Phillips did not name him) enters the scene with Sun Records, and produced the likes of Carl Perkins (considered the founder of Rock 'n Roll with his Blue Suede Shoes 1955), Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Presley and small, with only half the bottom-of-talent or the class of the above-cited, and would be nothing today without a bunch of dumb in need of who knows what. The sauce takes immediate and Rock 'N Roll is born! All this smacks
racism, has the image of the segregationist society. But the musicians who have always been cool people, transcend the barrier along the born Civil Rights Movement. Thus, Stax Records held by a white, records from 1957 and especially in the 60s the music of whites, blacks, and sometimes both simultaneously. Artists: Otis Redding, David Porter, Albert King (you know all his "Last Night"), Isaac Hayes (composer arranger and magical, and Black Muslim ). Times change and so much the better. Destiny knows no chance, and Memphis has it that April 4, 1968, is assassinated Martin Luther King. In 1972 takes place Wattstax, "Black Woodstock," and as like a Russian chess champion: "Blacks may have already won" (to say with an accent). Since, as we know, music is a mess, nobody imagines himself confined to a particular style, and certainly not determined by skin color. And I end with an anecdote that may illustrate my point: Al Green, Prince of Soul, has now turned to a more gospel music and is, today, pastor Memphis !
With all this history, it is quite clear that Memphis had more soul, and there is no reason he left. So I gave up all night to survey the legendary Beale Street search of ghosts Blues. I'd say I've found, despite the tourists who do not know what will take 1000 times in photo-flash, with no respect or interest in the band playing, despite its groups, competent but are confined to a sort 'Best Of' to satisfy its own tourists who do not listen to them (See the cover of U2), despite the singer has the voice of James Brown, who decide every night as the public launch of cheap necklaces, that the grannies proudly display on their new T-Shirt Graceland, despite the closure of all bars live at midnight (it was Tuesday night, but still), despite the sordid Coyote Ugly Bar and its unique table 6 used, despite the foul brew they serve and they dare to call beer. I wish to tell you these old timers, always present, who stamp their feet, even though all cervical function has stopped, the moist heat of two dancers excited, the smell of bad tobacco yellowing toothless smiles. But no, I must be honest and I have seen this before only Nashville New Orleans and . Memphis is a filthy tourist park, showing off her ugliness and vulgarity.
And then, a 2 am ', my search ended abruptly on a bad encounter. 3 guys were not enough of the sandwich that I offered them, and have decided I probably had more to offer them in my pockets. Taking advantage of my stupidity and my incredible naivety, I am quite violently strip has 3 blocks from Beale Street neon . Redistribution of wealth, perhaps, except that the money likely will end my camera in the hands of any dealer. Suffice to say that after it, the heart was gone, and I let the "soul" has to offer other luckier or more competent than me. Except that
. While the Blues and Rock are born to extreme poverty, pain and violence, then their legitimate heirs are perhaps those homeless, that there are a Memphis tens of thousands (!!!), and are mostly survivors of the impossible, courageous in the extreme. I think it was these two, whom I met, and which are improvised tour guides for the 1000th win my fortune I deigned to grant them (one had spent the 75 years of his life Memphis, and remembers well a certain Elvis when he was still anonymous). I do not know what to think of it. I still am! - Took a slap, stronger than the previous ones, and this time I hope it last!
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