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