June 24
More Images from Beale Street


Gentle Reader...


Here are some additional images from our adventures on Beale Street in Memphis...

 Images of Elvis abound...

 The drummer at Wet Willie's

 Figurines in one of the tourist shop windows...

 A window-dressing sampling of some of the cuisine at B. B. Kings

And here's some additional wisdom from my buddy James Thomas...

"...It hurts you when your woman leaves.  After that, anytime you get lonesome, you gonner want to hear some blues.  That's how blues started.  It ain't very many blues that ain't made up about a woman... Mighty near every record where they sing the blues is made up about a woman.  Your mind is on your woman.  She's giving you the blues.  You get worried over something, what you call a "deep study."  That's the blues.  You'll be thinking way back about how some woman left you.  You want her, and she don't want you.  That's what the blues is about..."