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I'm very concerned that some children
might grow up to be uncultured--and so are some other folks who run cool places
like blues and rock-n-roll museums!
One of my favorite
places is the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale,
Mississippi.
I
love their address of "No. 1 Blues Alley" which intersects with John
Lee Hooker Avenue!
Inside the museum, there are displays of blues
memorabilia, a wax figure of Muddy Waters giving an rural
performance, blues music instruments and sheet music, posters, and
the famous "Muddywood" guitar sculpture made by ZZ Top out of a beam
from Muddy Water's birthplace.
This museum's building is the former
Clarksdale Railroad Station where Robert Johnson, Charley Patton,
Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and so many other Delta
bluesmen left on their way to stardom. Yeah, that's me leaning
up against the building like Bugs Bunny! And speaking of ZZ Top, if it wasn't for the
three boys from Texas, this museum would not exist! 
The museum showed its gratitude with this
commemorative mosaic outside its original location.
 For more details, please visit the museum's web site
at www.deltabluesmuseum.org.
While it's not technically a museum, B.B. King's club
in Memphis is full of memorabilia including Stevie Ray Vaughn's
guitar!
And we can't forget to mention the Rock-n-Roll
Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio!
I recently visited Chicago and stopped in at a couple
of blues and rock-n-roll historical sites. Click on these
links to see some very interesting pictures from that trip:
And I know it took me forever to get my pictures
sorted and organized, but I finally found my photographs of the Sun
Studio in Memphis where Elvis, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl
Perkins, Johnny Cash and other stars recorded at the dawn of rock
and roll. Take a look around my
Sun Studio page to see some interesting scenes.
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