Beale Street in downtown Memphis is synonomous with the history of the blues and will host its annual Beale Street Musical Festival at Tom Lee Park from May 4 -6 2012 as part of the Memphis in May Festival.
It was not long after the hectic week of South by Southwest that the Australians over there scattered to various parts of America to make use of their time in the land of the free. I, scattered to Memphis, Tennessee to seek out the history of modern music and was not let down.