Visited the Museum of the Delta Blues before we set off for Tupelo. Here we discovered amongst the Delta Blues greats including Robert Johnson and BB King, we find our two performers from last night. Rachael and I had a (brief) conversation with the great Josh 'Razorblade' Stewart. One of his shirts is hung proudly beside BB Kings jacket. We even found pictures of Daddy Rich.
On a wall I found a memento presented by Robert Plant in 2006 recognizing the influence of the Delta Blues on Led Zeppelin. That will have been when he visited the city when he recorded Walking into Clarksdale with Jimmy Page. I have a copy of the album 'in white' that Robert gave me before the album had a sleeve.
From there we drove to Tupelo to visit the house where Elvis Presley was born. A bit of a let down really as it was a heavily sanitised and sentimental experience.
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