Author: Rosie

The Alamo today is hallowed ground to all Texans and represents the Shrine of Texas Liberty because of the famous Battle of The Alamo that was fought there in 1836.  ‘Remember the Alamo!’, is the famous battle cry that is still repeated today as the ultimate ‘no retreat, no surrender Texan catch call.

Check in Lady told us where the best bars are that have the best bands, where the best BBQ and Hot Wings are, the sights we cannot miss seeing, where the best diners are and what time the band starts in the Hotel Bar…’amazing’ said Rosie, ‘even in the hotel bar you have live music, I couldn’t believe they even had live music at the airport arrivals hall’. Check in Lady looked looked sideways at Rosie and said, ‘Darling, this is Nashville, there ain’t no place in town that don’t have live music’…..Check in Lady was not exaggerating, this place is alive with sound.

Nashville by day is just as busy as it is by night….its like no one went to bed, including the bands, I kid you not, every place along Broadway still had music blaring out their still open front windows….and it was only 1000am.

Rosie is shocked, she wasn’t quite expecting the grittiness that greets her, it is such a contrast to glitzy Nashville…Memphis is like a faded photograph of once was, famous Beale Street (above and below) is grimy and run down in the daylight, and so small, it looks like we have just entered the historic precinct of a town, one that is a time capsule of its good times in the 1950s….but, it is full of bars and blues music is coming out the doors.

This whole tour of the house and grounds has been very eerie, the house is a perfect time capsule which seems so intimate and ordinarily normal, the fact that this nearly fifty year old snapshot of a mans life is still so polarizing to me and all these visitors….is amazing too.