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Motorcycle Diaries (USA): Day 18

Today i'm heading on to Nashville (the last stop for this bike trip), but I couldn't leave Memphis without a visit to Sun Studios.

Sun Studios is generally considered to be the birthplace of Rock and Roll. The studio that first discovered and recorded Elvis Presley and was also the first to sign artists such as Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis , Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, Little Milton and B.B. King.

Certainly an impressive list of early artists and even today there's still many well known artists recording in this tiny studio with a huge amount of history. People such as Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Maroon 5, Def Leppard, Beck and of course U2.

I even had a chance to sing into the very same microphone that Elvis used for his early recordings. If only I could sing!

From here its back on the bike and i'm on the 'home straight' to Nashville, otherwise known as 'The Music Highway.'


TODAYS ROUTE MAP: 16/02/08 (220 Miles)

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