Adam writes…
To
mark the launch of the new Music Walk of Fame in Camden, yesterday here are 12 plaques,
stones & markers from my musical travels to celebrate the occasion…
1/12
Chess Studios 2120 South Michigan Ave Chicago – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon the young Rolling Stones,
ChuckBerry and many more…
2/12
The Last Concert Cafe in Houston, Texas - great music venue in a converted
brothel underneath the interstate - top Tex-Mex food, saw Gangstagrass
there in April…
3/12
J&M Music Shop - studio in New Orleans where Fats Domino & Little Richard
recorded. Now a launderette on Rampart Street…
4/12
Barrowland Park, Glasgow - the Album Pathway celebrates the many acts that have
played at the immortal Barrowland Ballroom in one of the UK's best music cities…
5/12
The great Charley Pride the first big African American star of Country Music
commemorated at the Country Music Hall Of Fame, Nashville…
6/12
Outside the famous Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley's duck feet - the hotel
has a very eccentric daily duck parade in the lobby…
7/12
Hessy's music shop, Liverpool – where the young Beatles bought their guitars…
8/12
The Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, Kentucky - an African-American-owned hotel
where musicians playing on the Chitlin' Circuit would stay – everyone from Tina
Turner to Cab Calloway…
9/12
Plaque marking the first gay bars in the great music city of Nashville, Tennessee…
10/12
1920's bluesman Furry Lewis commemorated on the Mississippi Blues trail in
Greenwood…
11/12
Stax legend Isaac Hayes on the
Memphis walk of fame (the Stax Museum is a MUST in that great city)…
12/12
Where it all began - plaque
marking Congo Square, New Orleans.
A place once filled with misery now rings with music in a park named for Louis Armstrong. A harrowing, emotional
and inspirational place for any music fan…
For my full schedule of guided music tours in London with London Music Tours visit www.londonmusictours.co.uk
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