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 Here on Beale Street, turn-of-the-century Alabama cornetist W.C. Handy
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Any Memphian will tell you that theres more to
Memphis than Elvis Presleys Graceland. In recent years the city
has transformed itself from a rundown has-been to a center of Southern chic. World-class museums, international exhibits, festivals, and beautiful Victorian homes all make
interesting diversions. Then theres Mud Island, where a scale modelfive city blocks
longreplicates every branch, backwater, eddy, and oxbow of the lower Mississippi
Valley.
Musicians of every varietyjazz, blues, country, rock-and-rollmake pilgrimages to record here. Beale Street, where Memphis blues went big-time, is now a popular nightspot with
restaurants, shopping, and live music. Elvis would be proud.
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