category: music
jimi hendrix locations
October 24, 2012 peter bell
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative guitarists in music history, Johnny Allen Hendrix (later James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix) was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, WA. In the short 27 years of his life, Hendrix redefined the possibilities of the electric guitar as an instrument, while expanding the capacity of an artist […]
elvis presley in memphis
September 16, 2012 peter bell
Elvis Presley’s family moved to Memphis, TN from Tupelo, MS in search of a better life. The young Elvis would have been 13 years old when he arrived in Memphis on September 12, 1948. The city of Memphis became synonymous with Elvis, and a number of locations from those early days (before Elvis became an […]
ween locations
August 9, 2012 peter bell
Like most people, I was shocked to hear that Ween was going to call it quits. To recap, at the end of May 2012, Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) had said during a Rolling Stone interview that he was retiring Gene Ween. After 28 years of performing in the band, there was a flurry of responses. […]
Johnny Cash locations
June 12, 2012 peter bell
Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]