Finally, I made my way out of the Delta today, but not before I took in a few more blues sites. I crossed the Big Muddy to Helena, Ark., where the King Biscuit Flour Hour is still broadcast daily. I visited a drug store in Friar's Point, Miss. (Conway Twitty's hometown) in front of which Robert Johnson used to sing. I also stopped by the graveyard in Walls, Miss. where Memphis Minnie is taking her final rest; unfortunately her grave is unmarked.

Then it was north to Memphis. I arrived in the evening, too late to see most of what I had planned for my brief stay here, so I had some good barbeque at Leonard's, took in the last six innings of the Memphis Chicks game (Chicks, as it turns out, is short for Chickasaw Indians; I was picturing a baseball cap with a baby chicken on it. I was somewhat disappointed) and called it a night. I want to get a good night's sleep because tomorrow I'm going to Graceland...Graceland...Memphis, Tennes-see...I'm going to Graceland.

Continue on the American Odyssey.
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