How Groups Can Feel the Inspiration and Emotion of Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis has forever been on my mind. My parents loved R&B and soul. I discovered the blues, rock ‘n’ roll and Elvis Presley on my own as a child. All were born or shaped in Memphis. Preoccupying, too, were the images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination at Memphis’s Lorraine Motel in LIFE Magazine’s iconic 1973 “Best of LIFE” photo anthology.
Long awaiting the “right” time for what loomed as a sacred pilgrimage in my imagination, I finally got my sign last summer with an invitation from Memphis Tourism to attend the Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience in New York City’s Central Park.