Blues and Rock-n-Roll Museums
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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 . 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. 
