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unusual facts about Beale Street


Beale Street

Beale Street Blues written by W.C. Handy (most recently recorded by Joyce Cobb), this is the oldest and most famous of all musical references to Beale Street.


Beale Street Blues

The title refers to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, the main entertainment district for the city's African American population in the early part of the twentieth century, and a place closely associated with the development of the blues.

Big Band Reflections of Cole Porter

On Tuesday evening, July 15, 2003 the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta held the CD release performance and party at the Gibson Guitar Factory & Showcase, one block South of Beale Street in downtown Memphis, TN.

United States open container laws

The entertainment district along Beale Street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, is specially exempt from both Tennessee's statewide open container ban and Memphis's local open container ban, thereby permitting the open consumption of alcoholic beverages on the street.


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James Govan

Since 1994 he has performed regularly with the Boogies Blues Band at the Rum Boogie Café, Beale Street.

Tourism in Memphis, Tennessee

In 2008, Beale Street is the most visited tourist attraction in the state of Tennessee, and considered to be the second busiest street in the southern United States, behind only Bourbon Street in New Orleans.