by Lynn & Cele Seldon Music fans across the country now have a one-stop shopping resource to easily research and explore the more than 1,500 miles of Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas highways and backroads that make up the new Americana Music Triangle. This massive preservation, informational, and premier road trip planning project brings to life nine uniquely American genres of music in the South. With more than 30 communities linked along the “Gold Record Road,” music-minded road warriors can now explore blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, R&B and soul, gospel, Cajun/zydeco, bluegrass and more. From Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo and his over-the-top Graceland in Memphis to the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, the honkytonks of Broadway in Nashville, and the history of the legendary Muscle Shoals sound at Fame Recording Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, there’s something for everyone. 30
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