D05 Memphis Indianola
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RouteXpert Hans van de Ven (Mr.MRA)
Last edit: 16-11-2019
Route Summary
This 5th route is part of a 12 day trip through the deep South of America. If you are an Elvis fan, you can also drive the route from Memphis to Indianola to Indianola via Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis Presley. This route is 433 km. Search MyRoute-app for "Elvis Presley Birthplace" and turn on the POI of a Museum, you will get the POI and can adjust this route so that you can drive via Tupelo and via the Natchez Park Trace parkway and Highway 82 to Indianola. This route goes from Memphis via "Elvis Presley Boulevard" via Route 61 South to Indianola, where the new "BB-King Museum" is open. The roads are good and the views beautiful and a stop at "Graceland Mansion" or at the "Elvis Automobile Museum" is a must.
Starting point: Best Western Gen X Inn.
End point: Quality Inn Indianola
The route has been made the same for TomTom, Garmin and MyRoute-app Navigation users.
Thanks to Richard & Lisa for the information!
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Duration
3h 3m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
227.01 km
Countries
Cotton field
RouteXpert Review
You leave Tennessee and enter Mississippi, direction Clarksdale. Clarksdale is the heart of the blues. Everything in the town breathes music. Not only musicians Sam Cooke and Ike Turner were born here, but also blues players John Lee Hooker, Big Jack Johnson and Muddy Waters were born in Clarksdale. Clarksdale lies along the so-called Blues Trail. This legendary Blues Highway or Route 61 takes you from country capital Nashville in Tennesse to the sultry jazz of New Orleans in Louisiana. The Delta Blues Museum greets you with a life-size statue of the legendary blues singer Muddy Waters. Other ex-residents of Clarksdale also receive a lot of attention in the museum, such as John Lee Hooker, Howlin 'Wolf and Robert Johnson, who would have sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the most beautiful blues songs ever made. The collection consists of photos, instruments and personal belongings, but especially the videos and sound recordings are of course interesting. Thanks to the modern rock group ZZ Top, who know where their music comes from, the museum underwent a major expansion. During the weekend, the juke joints, the traditional blues clubs, often have live music. For example, check out Smitty's Red Top Lounge, 377 Yazoo Avenue, or Margaret's Blue Diamond Lounge, Tallahatchie Avenue, or, on Sunday afternoons, Red's South End Disco on Sunflower Street. But those who really want to explore today's blues world are dependent on their own initiative and luck - nothing is certain, nobody knows for sure, anything is possible. Delta Blues Museum, 114 Delta Avenue, open from 9 to 5. Along the way you drive through landscapes with pine trees and the relatively flat land of the river delta. The Mississippi is now dammed with river dikes but the fertile soil here is the product of centuries of flooding and sedimentation.
Only after the Civil War did the federal government construct the dikes. We are now driving through Tunica County, one of the poorest parts of the United States. This is where the blues was born, in the fertile land that created enormous wealth for some and hideous poverty for many. After the mechanization of cotton production, many blacks left for Memphis and Chicago. There are all kinds of museums about civil rights, but it might be a little more interesting here
drive, then you can see for yourself what it was all about. A more authentic part of America is hard to imagine.
In this 4-star route you will drive along beautiful good roads, through one of the poorest but musical surroundings, and also in this route you will regularly stop to take some photos.
History:
Indianola is a place in the US state of Mississippi, and falls under Sunflower County in administrative terms. The number of inhabitants was created in 2006 at +/- 11,000 and has an area of 22.5 kmĀ². Among other things, the BB King Museum is located in Indianola. It recalls the BB King, who lived here, and other blues musicians from the Delta blues music style. Singer and songwriter George Jackson was born here in 1945 and died in 2013.
Elvis Automobile Museum
Clarksdale
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Changes may nevertheless have occurred due to changed circumstances, road diversions or seasonal closures. We therefore recommend checking each route before use.
Preferably use the route track in your navigation system. More information about the use of MyRoute-app can be found on the website under 'Community' or 'Academy'.
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