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Beale Street
1900
Memphis, Tennessee
Jeremy Atherton · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
W. C. Handy published Memphis Blues in 1912 and Beale Street Blues in 1917, putting the twelve-bar form into print for the first time and earning himself the title Father of the Blues. The street was the commercial and musical spine of Black Memphis. Urban renewal levelled most of the surrounding blocks in the 1970s.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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