Friday, November 9, 2018

Belmont Plantation, Greensville, Mississippi

We couldn't stay in the south without staying at a plantation at least once.  This one was beautiful.

Our breakfast buffet

Our room

The ladies' salon

Front of the house

Greensville, Mississippi

B.B. Kings Blues Museum

They wouldn't let us take pictures inside the museum so this is all I have.


One of his many guitars.

B.B. King's Grave just outside the Blues Museum

Blues club B.B. King bought to keep it going.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Clarksdale, Mississippi




George, you would have loved this shop.
Everything about harmonicas.

Harmonica player statue outside of Deak's Harmonica Shop

Cotton Picker

The crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil
so he could play the guitar really well.  

Morgan Freeman's Blues House.

Morgan Freeman's Blues House

The ceiling of our shack at Shack Up Inn.

One of the shacks you can stay in.  They brought sharecropper's
shacks here and have made a B&B out of it.  Not bed and breakfast
though; bed and beer.

Just thought this looked cool.

Front door of Shack Up Inn.

Our bedroom.  Not sure why the headboard is on the side wall.

Graffiti everywhere; I added my own of course.
The door to our room
View out my back porch.
Rob and Stephen in the living room of our shack.
The head board of our bed.
Our beautiful sharecropper's shack.  Called Electric Blue.

Our sitting room with Stephen and Grace's room off to the other side.



Monday, November 5, 2018

National Civil Rights MuseumW



Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.



Bus Rosa Parks rode and refused to move to the back of the bus.


Martin Luther King's Cell in Birmingham, Alabama

This museum was fascinating and really sad.  We spent three hours here and could have stayed longer.  This was probably one of the highlights of the trip so far.  

Graceland, Home of Elvis PresleyH

Elvis' living room and music room

Dining room

Kitchen

Den?

Pool room, fabric all over the walls and ceiling

Another living room

Lisa Marie's favourite chair (his daughter)

Back of his house

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Meditation Pond and where he is buried with
his parents and twin brother (who died at birth)

One of his many cars

His famous pink Cadillac.

He influenced loads of stars like Ike and Tina Turner.

Front of the house

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Sun Studio - The Birthplace of Rock and RollO



Old time juke box


BB King's guitar

Johnny Cash's guitar.  He taped a dollar
bill around the neck to change the sound.

They were called the Million Dollar Quartet.  Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins (Blue Suede Shoes), Elvis sitting and Johnny Cash behind him.