Photos from Tennessee and Kentucky

After Nashville we spent a few days touring around Tennessee and Kentucky en route to Bristol, which is on the border of Tennessee and Virginia. Here is a batch of photos from this part of our trip. First, here are some taken in Jackson, Tennessee, home town of Carl Perkins and the place that claims to be the birthplace of rockabilly, here's a mural in the town.

Here's Lee in the small square near the Rockabilly Museum/

Plaque to Carl Perkins at the Casey Jones Village.

Another Jackson resident was Sonny Boy Williamson the first. Here's a marker to him a few miles south of town.

Here are a few pictures inside the Rockabilly Museum, which is due to close soon. Carl Perkins' original blue suede shoes (allegedly), a broken pair of Roy Orbison's sun glasses (allegedly) and a display in the museum.

From Jackson we went to Central City, Kentucky, where there is a museum focusing on local boys the Everly Brothers. Here are a couple of photos of the museum plus one of Phil Everly's grave stone nearby.

Kentucky Fried Chicken, the fast food that is now available everywhere, started life in this diner in rural Kentucky.

We moved on Middlesboro which, as Lonnie Donegan fans will know, is 15 miles from the Cumberland Gap. First picture is taken at The Pinnacle, a viewpoint just outside town where you can see three states.

Back in Tennessee we came across the birthplace of Davy Crockett. We discovered that he wasn't born on a mountain top and we have doubts that he really killed him a bear when he was only three.

We arrived in Bristol and visited the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, which celebrates the famous recording sessions of 1927 which saw the first recordings by Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and others.

Finally in this batch, here's a photo of Lee and I with Marty Stuart who was visiting the museum, where he has an exhibition of his very fine photographs.