ESCORTED TOURS DEEP SOUTH DESTINATIONS American Queen


The largest steamboat ever built plies its way up and down the Mississippi between New Orleans and Memphis, making an atmospheric add-on to music tours in this region. Newmarket Holidays has a 16-day American Queen Mississippi tour which pairs seven nights on board with a music-themed itinerary around New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville. It costs from £3,095, with flights to Atlanta.


FAR LEFT: Blues Hall, Memphis


LEFT: Elvis


Presley’s grave


integration since it featured bands, artists and production staff of different races working together at a time of racial tension in the south (Martin Luther King Jr was shot at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis in 1968). For rock ’n’ roll buffs, a trip to


Sun Studio – where the genre was born and Elvis Presley was discovered – is a must. Our excellent tour guide regales us with anecdotes from the artists who recorded here, playing their tracks and tapping her toes to the beat. By the time she’s done


we’re all doing the same, and just standing in the same tiny room where Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison once recorded is spine-tingling. Then, of course, there’s


Graceland, the kitsch, crowded and wonderfully bizarre home


of Elvis Presley, which clients on Newmarket Holidays’ tour can choose as an optional excursion alongside Sun Studios. The King had his home


redecorated in 1974, decking it out with shag-pile green walls, an indoor waterfall and a giant


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