Yesterday we visited the Stax museum, which documents this American Soul recording studio's history. It was surprisingly very interesting. I was reminded of a conversation I had with Dad once. He said the blues is like the city cousin to country music. Both stem from a people working hard to survive and using music to make life a little easier.
At Stax I learned that country music had an influential part in developing "soul" music. The singers in a video mentioned watching the Grand Ole Opry. And some of my favorite countrified gospel hymns are full of soul like Precious Lord Take My Hand.
Then we drove by the motel Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in.
And we saw the peabody ducks march up to an elevator to their duck palace in the Peabody Hotel. A few words on that, actually just two could sum it up- over extravagant. These ducks are like kings and everyone comes to see them. So many in fact that you can't see well, as shown in the picture.
Then we ate at Rendezvous, a famous bar-b-que place.
I'm a Mizzou girl representing Katie's school in Tulsa in an area infested by Iowegians- never thought that'd happen. Tomorrow's the Liberty Bowl. More updates later.
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