The Feel It Advent-ure 2024: Door 6

We spent a few days in Memphis on our Deep South road trip. It warranted a few days as, of course, there was a lot to see and experience: 

We stayed at The Peabody so were treated to a duck march every day for starters :) 

Graceland was not as glitzy as we expected it to be, and all the better for it. The house itself was much smaller than I expected and had quite an intimate feel. The whole experience was well worth it.

Sun Studios was well worth a visit, it's great to know studio space itself is virtually unchanged from the Fifties.

There was great live music - and food - on offer from the bars on Beale St. 

The Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel was a really moving experience.  

And, of course, no trip to Memphis would be complete without a visit to the Stax Museum. They have a wall of records there which displays every single released on the Stax and Volt labels. Not quite every single actually, there were eight missing when we visited, and I have one of them! (Joni Wilson on Volt, which I have featured here a couple of times in the past). I could donate my copy but I don't feel ready to part with it yet. 

It was appropriate, then, that I bought a Stax single at Shangri-La Records.

The B side of this single I have written about twice before here, initially in 2006 (the first year of this blog's life!), and then again in 2010 when I wondered why I was all of a sudden getting a lot of views on my original post. It turned out it was because the song had appeared on the Treme soundtrack. This all seems like such a long time ago now. Just A Little Overcome  I have always had on a Stax compilation album. In the original post I said that you could probably pick up a copy of the single it appeared on for no more than £10. Little did I know then that I would finally pick up a copy of it (for $7) in the city of its birth.   

Time to give the A side an airing.

The Nightingales - I Don't Want To Be Like My Daddy  1971