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How's it going, folks? Been in Memphis for a couple of days on business and caught some good music on Beale St. Also got to drive by Sun Records (where Elvis was produced), kinda cool. Was continuing the drive with a friend and mentioned one of my heros was Martin Luther King, she didn't say anything but stopped the car a couple of blocks later and told me to look right. There was the motel where he was murdered. It was such a powerful flashback to the pictures of the man pointing at the shooter from the balcony. God, it gave me goosebumps. Also drove by Graceland which was underwhelming. Nice piece of property that sits in the middle of a very blue collar neighborhood. Somehow seemed very anticlimatic if you were a person that saved up your whole life to make the prilgrimage, make your reservations at the Elvis Presley Motel on Elvis Presley Blvd., only to be wedged between an auto parts store and an abandoned laundrymat. But it was still fun to say I was there.