Memphis Still Sings The Blues
Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2002
MEMPHIS IS ONLY technically in Tennessee. In psychic reality, it's the capital of Mississippi. Everyone who lives there knows it. What this 50 per cent black city relates to is the vast area lying not east but south. Elvis and his family were among the many southern migrants to Memphis.
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