i am trying to distill our vacation down to a list of my favorite things . . . but first of all, this is a silly exercise that reduces an all-over great vacation down to a few points. and second of all, i can't seem to narrow my list down very much.
but i will anyway. these are a few of my favorite things from the Great Music Road Trip of 2008:
* the Gibson guitar factory tour
* seeing Robert Plant
* the town of Clarksdale, MS
* meeting Puddin' Hatchett in Clarksdale
* the friendly people in Memphis, including Memphis Jones
* the swamp tour
* Charlie Daniels Band singing "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
* standing at the point where the US ended and the Chickasaw nation began
* driving past all the honky tonks with a band in each one, playing loud and all that music coming into our car
* the entire drive up Highway 61
Tip for the next road trip: stay off the interstates and drive more highways like 61 - the ones that go through towns and not around them.
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You got to meet Robert Plant?
I love the image of your car tootling all along the lesser-traveled highways with music bleating out into your hearing range. So cool.
Sounds like a real roots tour.
not quite "meet" - stood five feet away and watched other people fawn all over him. didn't want to be one of the fawners and had no idea what to say to him. i did want to take a picture of him with Rylan but Rylan absolutely refused to let me.
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