March 7th, 2012

I was down in Memphis for the 2012 Folk Alliance Festival. In summation, I spent a lot of time in hotel rooms, listening and playing music and grabbing beer out of the bathtub. That’s about all you need to know in one sentence. During my downtime in Memphis, I debated engaging in a pretty tight list of “things-to-do” while in Memphis. I bypassed running along the Mississippi (too tired), getting BBQ (not eating meat), visiting the Pyramid (wha?), visiting the Stax Museum (too much motivation), drinking on Beale St (ehhh) . . see the trend here . . a lot of excuses. But I ended-up finding no good excuse to pass-up visiting Graceland on a beautiful, February, Memphis morning. I’ve been on an Elvis-kick of late. Who doesn’t go through this at least once a lifetime right? And after having my Sirius/XM Elvis station on a good 20% of the time during these past 2 months, I realized that I was here in Memphis, and yeah, I needed to go pay my respects to The King.
(On a side note, I found it nearly IMPOSSIBLE, to not think of Mark Cohn and his tune “Walking in Memphis” while . . doing just that. And I realize this sounds so lame, but I asked around, and basically everyone I talked to had this same problem. It was like the elephant in the room. You had to try really hard, NOT to think of that tune. I guess this must be a sign of a lasting, good pop tune.)
So I went to Graceland. And I paid the $35.00. I did NOT pay for the bull-shit “Platinum” tour upgrade they were pitching. This involved getting access to tour the private Elvis Jets that are parked outside of the Graceland park entrance and impossible to miss. Kinda hysterical really. So all-in, it took about an hour. It was basically me and a bunch of European tourists. I took a good amount (see – way too many) of photos as I wasn’t sure what else to do really. The King lived well. His “Taking Care of Business” room was my favorite. The Fat Elvis 70′s suits were a close 2nd place.
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