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Cheraw, South Carolina is noted for many things but for music fans one stands out. It's the home of Dizzy Gillespie. John Birks Gillespie was born here on October 21, 1917. His childhood had a few bumps in the road. He father, who was a brick layer a...
Father of BeBop: Dizzy Gillespie
Willie Nelson preforming "Good Hearted Woman"at The Amp in St. Augustine, FL.
Willie Nelson at The Amp in St. Augustine, FL
Two events happened in 1965. Country Willie -- His Own Songs became Willie Nelson's first RCA Victor album leading to his success as a singer instead of just a songwriter. The same year, the Saint Augustine Amphitheater was built commemorating Saint ...
Willie Nelson at the Amp
Rockin' Dopsie Jr & The Zydeco Twisters were rocking at Southern Cast Iron Cook Off in Lake Charles.
Rockin' Dopsie Jr & The Zydeco Twisters
The history of the Delta, the triangular floodplain that lies between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, has long been noted as some of America's most fertile land and it was home to Native Americans for more than 1300-years before Columbus. The Frenc...
American Roads and Global Highways visits the Mississippi Delta
If you are die-hard Blues fan there is one place that will bring the Blues into your life like no other place on earth, Ground Zero Blues Club. Ground Zero is not just another blues club. It is as close as you can get to the roots of the blues.
American Roads Travel Magazine visits the Delta for Some Blues.
Dedicated to the Memory of B. B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14 2015 ) The Blues might be considered the soul of American music. It was born in the dark soil of the Mississippi Delta and came of age at juke joints and small bars where the field ha...
In Memory of B. B. King
Jimmie Rodgers was born on September 8, 1897, in Meridian, Mississippi, with a love of music in his heart. His mother died when he was very young and he was shuttled off to relatives until his father remarried and brought him back to Meridian. Perhap...
Jimmy Rogers, Father of Country Music
Most of Elvis's fans have made the pilgrimage to Graceland. His most devote followers recognize the importance of that earlier shrine, his birthplace in Tupelo Mississippi. After all without the birthplace there would have been no Graceland.
American Roads Visits the Birthplace of the King.
Lafayette Parish in Louisiana is alive with music. It's a part of their culture. In the 1760s, thousands of Arcadians driven out of Canada because of their religion were welcomed in Catholic Spanish owned Louisiana. They brought their music with them...
Lafayette Music
Three stops on the country music trail in Tennessee and Virginia.
Music Heritage Trail
I loved my stay here. It's next door to the Birthplace of Country Music Musuem
The Bristol Hotel, Bristol (updated prices 2026)
Shelby in Cleveland County is just 45 minutes west of Charlotte but a completely different world. Creativity reigns here. Two music legends were born in Cleveland County, Earl Scruggs and Don Gibson. Art is all over Cleveland County. Museums are uniq...
Shelby: Land of Rhythm and Roots
Perhaps no place in America has merged music from artists of all races more than The Shoals area, which consists of Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The man most responsible for placing Alabama on the music map was Rick Hal...
Music Made for All in The Shoals
When writing this book I visited so many interesting places. Discover how music evolved in America from music of the enslaved people and Appalachian settlers through rock and roll..
American Music: Born in the USA
Bluegrass band, Savanna Grass entertains on a Thursday night in Corinth, MS. There is more about Corinth's fun things to see and do at americanroads.net/corinth_6-25-2019.htm
savannah grass
Summer Music on Main Street with fantastic band playing Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison. It was a night to remember.
perry folsom prison
If you stay at the Marriott Shoals Hotel and Spa on your visit, the lobby and restaurant, Swampers Bar and Grill, are filled with Swampers memorabilia. They have great music there, too.
Renaissance Shoals Resort & Spa, Florence ...
Music is not static; it grows and evolves over the years. When tracing the origins of several styles of music in the U.S., almost all roads lead to the South. You can still visit many of the places frequented by those who left their mark on the music...
A musical history road trip through the South
The Beaumont, Port Arthur Metropolitan area in Texas is called the Golden Triangle in reference to the wealth that flowed in after the oil gusher at Spindletop in 1901. It includes other cities such as Orange, Nederland, Groves, Port Neches, Vidor, a...
Beaumont Port Arthur Where Music Lives
One of the greatest musicians of our time is memorialized in a museum in downtown Nashville. Only a handful of musicians have left as large a footprint on Country Music as Johnny Cash. The Johnny Cash Museum is rated number one music museum in the wo...
Legacy of The Man in Black: Johnny Cash Musuem
Baker's Keyboard Lounge offers dining and memories. It holds claim to being the oldest continuously operated jazz club in the world. All the biggest names in Jazz played on that little stage. People like Louis Armstrong, Sarah, Vaughn, Fats Waller, N...
Bakers Keyboard Lounge
This story is dedicated to Aretha Franklin, Detroit's own Queen of Soul. She passed away August, 16, 2018. May she always have "R E S P E C T." Published 9-1-2018 Say "Detroit" and any music lover will think "Motown." Yes, Motown is a big part of Det...
Detroit's Musical Heritage
One of the most iconic names in country music history is Patsy Cline. She was the first female artist inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She was one of the first country music singers to have a big crossover hit. "Walkin' After Midnight" r...
Patsy Cline House
The Mother Church of country music.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Admission
Best way to avoid the traffic in Nashville.
Prague Hop-On Hop-Off Trolley Tour - 90 Minutes
They call it Music City for a reason.
The show must go on!
Nashville earned its nickname, “Music City,” with its abundance of music related attractions. Naturally, country music reigns here (it’s a prime destination on a Southern musical road trip), but there are other things in Nashville worth visiting.
23 Best Things to do in Nashville for Boomer Travelers
The music of America was born in the Mississippi Delta. It was firmly rooted in the alluvial topsoil that the "Father of Waters" spewed across the land as it regularly overflowed its banks wreaking havoc on anything in its path. After mankind learned...
Mississippi Delta
You can't help but feel the music. The music is in the air. Better still it's at every street corner and under ever store awning. This is not canned. It's for real and it's coming at you loud and strong. Bands of every gender and ethnic mixture and e...
American Roads go to the Juke Joint Festival