re: Time to rank the New SEC's Top Ten Historic Music Destinations

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Jerry Lee Lewis smokes all of them…

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Also made his first hit in Memphis….

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I have to put New Orleans/Lake Charles #1

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Womens

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Even if he didn't screw himself, Jerry Lee wasn't going to surpass him. On par? sure but the popularity of Elvis was a phenomenon that can't be easily explained.

Jerry was more rock n roll than Elvis but what killed his career more than anything was having zero charisma and was an a-hole.

The only artist that Elvis said was superior to him was classically trained singer Roy Orbison.

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Nashville is just where Country Music drifted to...where it took root, grew, and now evolved into something else...the birthplace of Country Music is Bristol, Tennessee (on the Tennessee/Virginia state line). The 1927 Bristol Sessions, when the Victor Talking Machine Company recorded and launched the careers of Jimmy Rogers and the Carter Family, was when Country Music moved from the foothills of Appalachia to the radios across the country.

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There was a country music recording industry in Atlanta several years before the Bristol sessions. The organizer of those sessions had been recording and distributing country music recordings made in a studio in Atlanta at least 7 years before the Bristol sessions. That studio had a recording done in 1923 or 24 that was a hit coast to coast and that recording is considered the first commercially viable country music to ever exist….3 or more years before the Bristol sessions.

Arkansas doesn't have nearly as big of an impact on the blues as Mississippi but still has made a big impact on getting it on radio which broadcasted to the nation and then the world

King Biscuit Time

Athens - REM, B52s, Widespread Panic, Pylon, 10,000 Maniacs, etc.

Macon, Georgia
Little Richard, Otis Redding, Jason Aldean, Allman Brothers, Chuck Levelle, James Brown, Robert McDuffie, etc all have Macon connections. Also half of REM - Mike Mills and Bill Berry grew up in Macon and others like Sting, Lynard Skinner, Tom Petty, Eric Clampton, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section etc recorded there at one time.

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The entire list is a non sequitur,,,
Some lists types of music, some lists artists, some lists cities or areas. Which is it?
I can't imagine a better way to enjoy music for a one-two week periods than going to a weekend of Jazz Fest, catching the music at the small venue clubs during the weekdays between Jazz Fest weekends, then traveling between Baton Rouge and Lake Charles to catch some Zydeco, then real Cajun music south of I-10. Just my opinion..

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Some geographical areas of historic music are best described through naming regions, some best described by naming cities

Georgia for instance is best described by, one, naming Macon, and the beautiful music that emanated from that geographical point

Georgia also got the Atlanta/Athens recognition in this thread, since they're less than an hour apart, but the Athens crybabies are still not happy

The Athens Society of Taco Bell Shift Supervisors in this thread are not happy until everything revolves around Athens, and that's just not how it works, sadly for them as they go back to work spreading cheese and opening boxes of precooked taco meat and being mad

And of course, some of them can't even read.

I love Atlanta/Athens, as I cheered the demise of 80's music in the early 90's, while living not far away from there

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Are you truly this ignorant to not comprehend electronic, house, etc and a whole slew of sub-genres of live DJ music exist in the world?

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Even if it's something that you're not into, it's still easy to see how much skill it takes to do it.

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Atlanta is the epicenter of rap and hip hop regardless of region today.

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I will add Atlanta is HUUUUGE in the modern gospel music scene. Some of the best ensembles on Earth right here (and Birmingham and Memphis down the road)

Some of the group reportedly attended UGA for awhile and recorded there while trying to get discovered. Michael Stipe of REM and the maniacs Natalie Merchant were rumored to be an item at one time. Also heard that the group did landscaping work to help make ends meet until they hit the big time.