Blues Highway: Day 2

Day 2 -- Memphis

 WC Handy wrote the Memphis Blues, The Beale Street BLues and the St. Louis Blues in this house.  (For my demonstration of why acoustic players shouldn't use electronic effects, go here and listen to
 "W C Handy's Bad Dream").  Anyway, W C Handy is arguable the 'father of the blues' not because he was the first to play blues but before recording was common, music was sold as sheet music, and WC Handy was trained in music and could render his ideas in a musical score.  More on Handy when we get to Tutwiler.