We had the best time on the Mojo tour, being ferried around Memphis in the "Love and Happiness" bus. Our guide, blues musician Eric Hughes, who was a wealth of information about both its formal - and the juicier informal - history, delivered with style, humor, and a lot of live blues. Kudos also to our driver, who snaked us through tight corners and construction sites with grace and aplomb (if you go - please tip the driver, who is the tour's unsung hero).
We laughed and sang across town, two centuries, and the story of America's music, starting and ending on the corner of B.B King Boulevard and Beale St.
Be sure to add in the tour of the original Sun Studios - the birthplace of Rock n' Roll, and still actively recording artists today. It's untouched since the 1950s and mind-blowing in it's sense of musical history. You can stand where Elvis, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Howlin' Wolf, and so many others got their start, see the records, and, in some, cases, even touch the instruments they used. Not to be missed.