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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 7286826, member: 83956&quot;][ATTACH=full]1275926[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I live in Jackson Tennessee, about 80 miles East of Memphis. It&#039;s the hometown of Carl Perkins and is said to be, with some justification, the birthplace of Rockabilly music. Scotty Moore, Elvis’s 1950s guitar player, was born 20 miles away in Gadsden. Every senior citizen in town seems to have an Elvis story. My university provost, for example, went to hang out at Graceland when she was a teenager with a bunch of other girls. Elvis pretty much ignored her. The woman who ran our copying services told me a story of going to see one of the traveling music shows modeled on the Louisiana Hayride back in the mid-50s. All the teen girls were getting autographs of the country and rockabilly artists, and one poor neglected singer asked them, “Don&#039;t you want my autograph too?” So they humored him and asked him for his autograph. Of course, it turned out to be Elvis, just before he made it big. In Jackson there’s a museum dedicated to rockabilly music and it doubles as the little-known Rockabilly Hall of Fame. My favorite display consists of the actual defibrillators used, unsuccessfully, to revive Elvis. They are no longer on display. I guess somebody suggested that they might be in poor taste. I&#039;m glad I got the photograph when I did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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