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Name the genre, and it probably began here. The Mississippi Delta
birthed the blues, while New Orleans opened the door to jazz. Rock and
roll arrived the day Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studio (
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in Memphis.
And country made its way from fiddle-and-banjo Appalachian hamlets to
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry (
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). The Mississippi River took the music
north, where Chicago and Detroit riffed into the electric blues and Motown sound,
respectively. It all translates into great live music wherever you are in the region.
