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elvis presley locations in tupelo
April 18, 2013 peter bell
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley. Elvis’ twin brother, Jesse Garon, died in stillbirth that same day. The home where Elvis was born is now a museum open to the public in Tupelo. The Presleys lived in and near Tupelo until Vernon moved the family to Memphis. […]
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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 […]
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Tagged arkansas, arrest, birthplace, boyhood home, california, folsom prison, former, future, germany, grave, hendersonville, john carter cash, johnny cash, landsberg, los padres, mississippi, museum, nashville, nickajack cave, previous, prior, Ryman Auditorium, Sun studios, tennessee, texas, virginia
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