This BBC 6Music Memory Tape from Nashville to New Orleans is quite the playlist, so we thought we would share with you all!
Every now and then there's a Memory Tape submitted that's so huge, it can do nothing but inspire awe.....and copious amounts of jealousy! This Memory Taper is Nev Tabb from Cornwall and he and his best mate went and travelled on some of the most famous musical roads in history. They were living the dream for all of us! If you fancy sending a memory tape to BBC 6Music visit bbc.co.uk/blogs/laurenlaverne/posts/Memory-Tapes-From-Nashville-To-New-Orleans to find out how. Here is what Nev had to say when he sent his in.....
Here's my submission for your always fantastic Memory Tapes feature. It's not a great tear-jerker of a story, I’m afraid, but I reckon the music's half decent.
Not long after starting secondary school down here in mid-Cornwall, a new kid arrived from far away Surrey and I was given the job of showing him around his new school for a few days. Nearly thirty years later, Doug and I are still the best of friends and when our 40th birthdays started to loom large on the horizon, we decided that we needed to do something to commemorate the occasion.
As music has always played a large part in our friendship whether it be listening to each other's newly discovered records, attending gigs and festivals or even inflicting our own songs on an unsuspecting public with our first band, Crazy Chester, the idea of going to a gig soon became a focal point of our planning. This idea soon developed into a gig abroad, possibly in America which then became a festival and finally a kind of music related road-trip.
The final itinerary saw us flying into Nashville then driving to Memphis via Muscle Shoals then driving down through Mississippi to New Orleans. It was a music nerd's dream as we toured studios, museums, venues and countless other historical sites. Nearly every night of our 10 day trip involved live music of some kind including the Beale Street Festival down by the Mississippi river in down-town Memphis.
Naturally, I just had to put together a personalised soundtrack to our road-trip and one of the few advantages of being a sad, single 39 year old music geek is that I had the time & record collection to put together the mother of all mix-tapes.
Seven individually themed discs built from songs with some sort of (occasionally tenuous) connection to the city/region with one disc devoted entirely to Elvis related stuff for our trip to Graceland:
From Nashville To New Orleans
NASHVILLE
I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE - JOHNNY CASH
FEELS LIKE RAIN - JOHN HIATT
THE ONE I LOVE - R.E.M.
STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN - BOB DYLAN
EVERYONE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU - STEVE EARLE
IN DREAMS - ROY ORBISON
SHAKEDOWN ON 9TH STREET - RYAN ADAMS
BOX FULL OF LETTERS - WILCO
WAYFARING STRANGER - EMMYLOU HARRIS
LONELY BOY - THE BLACK KEYS
IT CAN'T BE NASHVILLE EVERY NIGHT - THE TRAGICALLY HIP
JOLENE - DOLLY PARTON
I BURN TODAY - FRANK BLACK
SIXTEEN SALTINES - JACK WHITE
YOU'RE STILL ON MY MIND - THE BYRDS
ANGEL DANCE - ROBERT PLANT
CAN'T LET GO - LUCINDA WILLIAMS
STRINGS OF NASHVILLE - PAVEMENT
MUSCLE SHOALS
BORN TO BE WILD - WILSON PICKETT
SWEET HOME ALABAMA - LYNYRD SKYNYRD
WILD HORSES - THE ROLLING STONES
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH - CHER
ALABAMA PINES - JASON ISBELL
SLIP AWAY - CLARENCE CARTER
LOAN ME A DIME - BOZ SCAGGS
TELL MAMA - ETTA JAMES
I WALK ON GUILDED SPLINTERS - JOHNNY JENKINS
EVERLASTING LIGHT - THE BLACK KEYS
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE - LOU JOHNSON
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE - THE STAPLE SINGERS
I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU) - ARETHA FRANKLIN
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
HEY JUDE - WILSON PICKETT
TAKE A LETTER TO MARIA - R.B. GREAVES
MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS - FACES
SON OF A PREACHER MAN - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
LONELY WEEKENDS - CHARLIE RICH
MOVIN' ON UP - PRIMAL SCREAM
YOU DON'T KNOW LIKE I KNOW - SAM & DAVE
DEBONAIR - AFGHAN WHIGS
I WALK THE LINE - JOHNNY CASH
SEPTEMBER GURLS - BIG STAR
TO LOVE SOMEBODY - JAMES CARR
TURN YOU INSIDE OUT - R.E.M.
SWEET CAROLINE - NEIL DIAMOND
LOVE AND HAPPINESS - AL GREEN
HEY JEALOUSY - GIN BLOSSOMS
WINE - JIM DICKINSON
WILD ONE - JERRY LEE LEWIS
ALEX CHILTON - THE REPLACEMENTS
SHOULDN'T BE ASHAMED - WILCO
SOUL FINGER - BAR-KAYS
MEMPHIS - PART 2
THE LETTER - THE BOX TOPS
WALKING WITH THE DECO MAN - RICK VITO
GIMME BACK MY DOG - SLOBBERBONE
BLUE SUEDE SHOES - CARL PERKINS
HAPPY MAN (MEMPHIS VERSION) - SPARKLEHORSE
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN - ALBERT KING
THE NORTH POLE - THE WALKMEN
THEME FROM SHAFT - ISAAC HAYES
JESUS CHRIST - U2
YOU AND YOUR SISTER - CHRIS BELL
MELTING POT - BOOKER T & THE MGs
UNTIL YOU CAME ALONG - GOLDEN SMOG
HILLBILLIES FROM OUTERSPACE - VAUGHAN BROTHERS
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN' ON MY HEAD - B.J. THOMAS
DOWN IN THE VALLEY - OTIS REDDING
SCREAMADELICA - PRIMAL SCREAM
JUST WALKIN' IN THE RAIN - THE PRISONAIRES
ELVIS SPECIAL
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT (LAUGHING VERSION) - ELVIS PRESLEY
ALL SHOOK UP - RY COODER
THAT'S ALRIGHT, MAMA - ROD STEWART
ELVIS IS EVERYWHERE - MOJO NIXON
DOWN IN THE ALLEY - JEFF HEALEY BAND
SUSPICIOUS MINDS - MARK JAMES
HEARTBREAK HOTEL - BERT JANSCH
VIVA LAS VEGAS - DEAD KENNEDYS
IN THE GHETTO - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
ALWAYS ON MY MIND - RYAN ADAMS
I WISH I COULD MEET ELVIS - ALEX CHILTON
JAILHOUSE ROCK - JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP
BIG BOSS MAN - JIMMY REED
CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE - EELS
GUITAR MAN - THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN
HOUND DOG - BIG MAMA THORNTON
MARIE'S THE NAME/RUSHOLME RUFFIANS - THE SMITHS
ALL SHOOK UP - OTIS BLACKWELL
LOVE ME TENDER - JAMES BROWN
BLUES TRAIL
HIGHWAY 49 - HOWLIN' WOLF
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED - KAREN O & THE MILLION DOLLAR BASHERS
I AIN'T SUPERSTITIOUS - WILLIE DIXON
ODE TO BILLY JOE - BOBBIE GENTRY
TERRAPLANE BLUES - ROBERT JOHNSON
THE THRILL IS GONE - B.B. KING
THIS IS HIP - JOHN LEE HOOKER
SUMMERTIME - SAM COOKE
ROCKET 88 - IKE TURNER/JACKIE BRENSTON & HIS DELTA CATS
TAXMAN - JUNIOR PARKER
I CAN'T BE SATISFIED - MUDDY WATERS
JACKSON - LUCINDA WILLIAMS
THE SUN IS SHINING - ELMORE JAMES
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY - JIMMY REED
THEY'RE RED HOT - ROBERT JOHNSON
KILLING FLOOR - HOWLIN' WOLF
MONKEY TO MAN - ELVIS COSTELLO
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN & OUT - BESSIE SMITH
NEW ORLEANS
TUTTI FRUTTI - LITTLE RICHARD
DROP ME OFF IN NEW ORLEANS - KERMIT RUFFINS
LITTLE LIZA JANE - HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH
ON YOUR WAY DOWN - ELVIS COSTELLO & ALLEN TOUSSAINT
TIPITINA - PROFESSOR LONGHAIR
STAGGER LEE - LLOYD PRICE
IKO IKO - THE DIXIE CUPS
IT'S RAINING - IRMA THOMAS
CISSY STRUT - THE METERS
THIS CITY - STEVE EARL
HOLY COW - LEE DORSEY
TELL IT LIKE IT IS - AARON NEVILLE
RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME - DR. JOHN
BLUEBERRY HILL - FATS DOMINO
OOH POO PAH DOO, PTS 1-2 - JESSIE HILL
A CERTAIN GIRL - ERNIE K-DOE
VOODOO - THE NEVILLE BROTHERS
LIPSTICK TRACES - BENNY SPELLMAN
MOST OF THE TIME - BOB DYLAN
YES WE CAN CAN - THE POINTER SISTERS
HOT TAMALES - PT 1 - PRIME MATES
HERCULES - AARON NEVILLE
SOMETHING YOU GOT - ALVIN ROBINSON
I WISH I WAS IN NEW ORLEANS - SCARLETT JOHANSSON
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