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Creative center in the southeastern United States: Tennessee played in the musical history of each country a central role like no other region. The state, bordered by the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Mississippi in the west, was the impact site known musicians such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Isaac Hayes and Roy Orbison. The traffic artery, Interstate 40, was excellent "Music Highway" baptized.
A Roadtrip through the history of the Sounds of the USA starts in Nashville. The capital of the state is not without reason "Music City" called. The four label giants Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal have branches here and make the 500,000-inhabitant city besides New York to the heart of the U.S. music industry.
In the legendary RCA Studio B Elvis took 250 hits, including the early sixties, "Are you lonesome tonight" and "It's now or never". Even Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison or the Everly Brothers produced there. Tourist Main attraction is the Country Music Hall of Fame, a museum, the Country-story.
Before Layla's Bluegrass Inn on Broadway in Downtown is a girl with Haarkamm and stretch pants in leopard pattern. Wippt your head to the beat. From inside scheppert intense sound that they call here Hellbilly. The entrance guarded by a bouncer tube jeans and Hanfblattgürtelschnalle. Ultimately, he released the door. The shop is bursting at the seams.
Between cowboy hats and lard cleats
On stage, roars his Hank Williams III micro, as did the evil in the world responsible. In addition, a violently plucks the bass. The music is aggressive, the mood is not. Cowboyhüte and lard cleats durchpflügen the air. A drunken dancer withdraws zappelnd shirt over her breasts.
TRAVEL SONG QUIZ
Musicians are constantly on tour, see the big stars on their tours, the hotel lobbies in the world and can be combined to form new song inspired beads. No wonder that many pop classics of travel to distant countries to act? how many do you know?
The heavily tattooed Hank roars on. Then, his voice suddenly whiskeywarm. It is the tradition of caring for a rebel, of Nashville's story writes, although he was once his city as "Trash City" besang and the old sound ansagte the fight. His grandfather was the legendary Hank Williams, one of the most influential country musicians and inspiration for Johnny Cash.
From the Country euphoria and everything that came afterwards, also wants something Tiara Sky abhaben. The Mittzwanzigerin with the long blond hair is around half past one at night on the sidewalk and played dreamy melodies. She is alone, and without hübsch record contract.
In her suitcase guitar are a few dollar bills and self-CDs and their songs: "Ten dollars the piece," she says, "do you want a photo of me to buy?" The CD finds a buyer who agrees to thank Tiara's recent song to: "I walk alone".
Visit to Johnny Cash
On the following day is a visit to Hendersonville, 20 miles northeast of downtown Nashville, on the program. The grave of Johnny Cash is an important pilgrimage destination for music. On a wide, open grass area is Cash's grave in one of the front rows. The fifth anniversary of his death is only a few weeks ago, here are fresh arrangements, three picks, a single and a letter: "I have nowhere else to go to 'visit' you. Today you have been gone 5 years. I miss you so much I can hardly breathe. We'll meet again sweet dad. I love you. "
Continue the trip on the Music Highway west. Next stop is the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in Jackson halfway to Memphis. This often occurs W.S. Holland. "Fluke," said business card as his nickname, has for decades played with Johnny Cash. Until most recently, they worked together. Holland, who lives nearby, give tourists a taste here and more of his skills - all without Gage. This assures the lady from the local tourist office.
Even now defines the 73-year-old into the stuff. The drums on the small stage has probably already no longer sticks and breaks seen in the first blow almost together. Country singer Rayburn Anthony Fluke accompanied by guitar and deep voice to "Saint Louis Blues" and "Folsom Prison Blues." It is witnessed music history.
History, for the Holland claims: "Nobody had drums then." The drum veteran - white hair, sunglasses, Hawaiian shirt - tells of the past, when he was 1954 with rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis "as the first drummer ever" recordings. Because the drums as a rhythm instrument was gradually incorporated into the Rock'n'Roll. As a 19-year-old Holland has played with Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. From 1960 he played with Johnny Cash.
In the Hall of Fame, it is stories like these, which are to be maintained. Elvis, Perkins and Cash looking pictures on the walls. In addition to photographs, everything is as what the good collection of a true admirer of: vinyl, concert posters and memorabilia absurd - even a defibrillator, which was once the King of Rock'n'Roll was used.
A street wrote music history
Continue on Interstate 40 to Memphis. Here is the Beale Street historic distillate of the music boom that the city as a melting pot of cultures experienced. With its illuminated signs, it is like a UFO in the desertified downtown, where once the soul, the Rhythm'n'Blues and the rock'n'roll of the way was paved.
Decades ago, Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, Ike Turner at the Beale Street sent to look for new talent to keep. What he found was Tina, so for her first record deal came from. Later he devoted himself to white musicians, which he built Rockabilly stars. "Welcome to the legendary Sun Studio, the birthplace of Rock'n'Roll", which welcomes about 40 Cora music tourists, who for twelve U.S. dollars per occurrence on a tour through the old reception rooms participate.
In 1954 was Elvis' first single "That's All Right Mama" at Sun published. A photograph in the studio on Union Avenue provides a historical evidence. It shows the "Million Dollar Quartet: Elvis at piano, surrounded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash - in the same room where the group currently stands.
Soul and segregation
As the "Memphis Sound" is still not rock'n'roll, but the soul has become famous. This was due to the legendary soul label Stax, which in the sixties furor. In McLemore Avenue today, there is the supposedly "only museum in the Soul World."
On the screen at the cinema hall of the Stax Museum tells the musician Booker T. Jones, the history of the label. "When Martin Luther King not been shot, it would still operate Stax," says Jones. "It turned suddenly everything just for the race. The people asked us: 'Why is it with these types of white?"
In the sixties, as in the public life of the United States legally legitimized segregation still had the soul label of understanding a role play. Large proportion had Jones's The Booker T & The machine guns, a four-man formation with two black and two white members.
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After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 it went downhill with the legendary label with Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Otis Redding and many others had become great. The mid-seventies, it was economically ruined.
Money is the musical heritage of Tennessee today mainly made in Graceland, the last home of Elvis Presley. In the adjacent "Meditation Gardens, where the King, together with parents and grandmother at the splashing fountain is buried, the twittering of the many digital cameras as visitors attracted sparrows. $ 38 cost of admission. $ 80 is spent, who is next to the villa as Elvis icing on the cake 'car and airplane collection will marvel.
About the Center distributed jostle a half-dozen souvenir shops to buyers for Plüschcadillacs pink or wall, their legs shaped like the typical pendulum Hüftschwung imitate Elvis. If this is the "King" knew. His father left behind in the 1977 inscription of the bronze grave stone: "God saw that he needed rest, and called him to himself."
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