Tennessee Music Highway

There is another music city along I-40, though.

It’s the soul of the South,

the home of the Blues

and keeper of the Mighty Mississippi mojo.

First, follow the Music Highway (as this section of I-40 is respectfully called) southwest out of Nashville. For more information on sites of interest, visit the website:  www.tnmusichighway.com

 

A few of the most prominent include Loretta Lynn’s Dude Ranch (exit 143),

 

the Patsy Cline memorial site in Camden where her plane crashed (exit 126),

 

and the Casey Jones Village & Old Country Store (exit 80).

www.caseyjones.com

The Ballad of Casey Jones

Visitors can visit the last residence of the legendary train engineer immortalized in song. The Railroad Museum in itself is worth a stop, but a bite of fudge at the Brooks Shaw’s Old Country Store makes it even sweeter.

 

While passing through Jackson, TN,

                   give a shout-out to Isaac Tigrett,

co-founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues.

In fact, the first Hard Rock Café in America was at the Old Hickory Mall in Jackson (no longer open).

 

Sleepy John Estes of Brownsville;

Tina Turner of Nutbush;

 the list goes on and on.

 They all came to the city of Memphis to get their start,

and you can learn more about them

                      at the Rock & Soul Museum

                                                         on Beale Street.

www.memphisrocknsoul.org

 

But I'm getting ahead of myself!