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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