Atlanta, Georgia
Music Heritage Of The South​
ULTIMATE ROAD TRIPS TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN MUSIC
DAY 1 – START OF THE TOUR
- Pre-tour meeting (7.30 AM)
- Start of the tour
- Talladega Super speedway museum
- Lunch (around Birmingham AL)
- visit to Jesse Owens Museum
- Florence, Alabama - W. C Handy home and museum
- Sheffield, Al - Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
- Tuscumbia, AL - Alabama Music Hall Of Fame
- Dinner
- Hotel for overnight
(Hampton Inn, Florence, AL - Standard tour
Marriott Shoals Spa, Florence, AL - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 4 hours
DAY 2 - ALABAMA TO MEMPHIS, TN
- Muscle Shoals, AL - FAME recording studio tour
- Natchez Trace Parkway to Tupelo, MS
- Tupelo, Automobile Museum
- Birth house of Elvis Presley tour
- Shopping in Western store, Olive Branch, MS
- Arrival in hotel
- Dinner and fun at the Beale street
- Hotel (La Quinta Inn & Suites, Memphis - Standard Tour
Hyatt Place Memphis Primacy Park - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 3.5 hours
DAY 3 – MEMPHIS
- Breakfast
- Sun Records Studio Tour
- Gibson guitar factory tour
- Rock and Soul museum
- Lunch
- National Civil Rights Museum
- (Alternative) visit to Graceland (tickets not provided for Standard tour)
- Stax museum
- W.C. Handy house and Museum
- Dinner/Beale street
- Return to hotel
(La Quinta Inn & Suites, Memphis - Standard Tour
Hyatt Place Memphis Primacy Park - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 1 hour
DAY 4 – MEMPHIS TO CLARKSDALE
- Visit to 2 cemeteries in Memphis
- Visit to Memphis Minnie grave site
- Visit to Delta Cultural Center and King Biscuit Radio
tour in West Helena AR
- Lunch
- Stop at Stovall Plantation
- Visit to Delta Blues Museum
- Other activities in Clarksdale (Crossroad;
Hopson Plantation, Riverside hotel)
- Blues and rock museum
- Dinner at Ground Zero blues club
- Hotel (Ground zero apartments or alternative location - Standard tour
Gold Strike Casino Resort - Robinsonville, MS - Luxury tour - note: no free breakfast)
Travel time up to 2 hours
Day 5 – DELTA
- Breakfast
- Tutwiller to visit Sonny Boy Williamson II grave site
- Po Monkey’s Lounge, Merigold
- Cleveland, MS
- Visit Dockery farms
- Visit Robert Johnson grave site in Greenwood
- Visit Elmore James grave site
- Return to Indianola
- Dinner in Indianola (Club Ebony or alternative location)
- Hotel for overnight ("Blues Traveler Inn" Indianola- Standard tour
Harlow's Casino Resort & Spa, Greenville, MS - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 4 hours
Day 6 – DELTA
- Breakfast
- Leland, MS – visit to Highway 61 museum
(option- Jim Hanson museum - no tickets provided)
- Greenville, MS (optional)
- Charlie Patton grave site
- Indianola
- Visit BB King museum and his resting place
- West Point, MS - Howlin' Wolf Museum
- Dinner in West Point, MS or Tuscaloosa, AL
- Overnight in Tuscaloosa, MS
(Country Inn & Suites By Carlson, Tuscaloosa, AL Standard tour
Hilton Garden Inn, Tuscaloosa, AL - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 4.5 hours
Day 7 – ALABAMA
- Breakfast
- Moundville, AL - stop in Native American Museum
- Selma, AL visiting historic bridge
- Rosa Parks Museum in Birmingham AL
- Hank Williams Museum in Birmingham AL
- First Confederate White House Museum
- visit to Commodores records studio in Tuskegee, AL
- Overnight in Columbus, GA
(Holiday Inn, Columbus - Standard tour
The Hyatt Place Columbus - Luxury tour)
Travel time up to 4.5 hours
Day 8 – MACON TO ATLANTA
- Breakfast
- visit to Ma Rainey house and museum, her grave nearby
- Macon, GA
- Lunch in historic H&H restaurant
- Tour in Macon (Allman Brothers Band museum, cemetery, guided tour in Macon)
- Drive back to overnight hotel (dinner along the way)
Travel time up to 3.5 hours