![]() ![]() GORDON: And I had my back to the stage and heard this sound and was like - you know, they talk about adolescent lightning strikes. ![]() Later, he gained attention as part of the folk and blues revival of the 50s' and 60s.' Gordon first encountered him as a young teen when he heard Lewis open for the Rolling Stones. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHY DON'T YOU COME HOME BLUES")įURRY LEWIS: (Singing) Pearlee, why don't you come home?ĮLLIOTT: Lewis recorded in the 1920s on Victor records, then worked as a street sweeper for the city of Memphis. ![]() GORDON: And Furry Lewis was a bottleneck blues guitar player, meaning a slide guitar player. And, you know, that's not on the maps, and it's kind of interesting.ĮLLIOTT: Just around the corner is another spot you won't find on the Memphis music maps - the block where the late bluesman Furry Lewis used to live. ![]() GORDON: There it is, like an unassuming corner across the street from a church next to a really rundown apartment building. Instead, Gordon steers his 1987 Caprice Classic by the old YMCA where B.B. ROBERT GORDON: My deep interest is in what's in the shadows and not in the spotlight.ĮLLIOTT: So unlike a typical Memphis music pilgrimage, we're going to skip Graceland, Elvis Presley's home, and drive right past Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio where some say rock 'n' roll was born. Journalist and author Robert Gordon is our tour guide for the sounds of his hometown. Let's take a year-end road trip to a city that helped shape American music - Memphis, Tenn. ![]()
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