Music

Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Austin

Broadway, Nashville. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

American popular music was invented in a handful of Southern cities. This is the pilgrimage route: country in Nashville, blues and rock in Memphis, jazz in New Orleans, and everything live in Austin.

Nashville honky-tonksTennessee · Broadway's live music, all day.

Beale Street, MemphisTennessee · The home of the blues.

Frenchmen Street, New OrleansLouisiana · Jazz clubs night after night.

Austin live musicTexas · The self-declared live music capital.

The dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Motown Museum, DetroitMichigan · Hitsville USA, Studio A intact.

Sun Studio, MemphisTennessee · Where rock and roll was born.

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