If you are both a football and a music fan, you must make the Liberty Bowl trip to go see the Pirates play the Razorbacks. There is nothing like it. I was lucky to be able to get down to Memphis for New Year’s Eve last year and make the Bluff City Ball with a bunch of Pirate friends to see the North Mississippi All-Stars, Lucero, Amy LaVere and the late Jim Dickinson at the Orpheum Theatre. It was a blast and then headed down to Beale Street after the show to celebrate the New Year with a bunch of other fellow Pirates while our feet were ten feet off of it.
I know the budget may be tight but as my good friend, Big Erv, likes to say, “You can’t put a price tag on memories” and there is no doubt in my mind that making the trip to the 2010 Autozone Liberty Bowl will be memorable to say the least. Just like barbecue, you can find good music about anywhere in Memphis. It is the home of Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Issac Hayes, Howlin’ Wolf and some guy named Elvis just to name a few. Most people think of Nashville is the mecca of music in Tennessee but let me quote a Texas singer-songwriter named Cory Morrow: “Nashville sucks.” However, NashvillePirate doesn’t and he sent along a great list of places to check out live music at in Memphis.
You can stumble in to any bar and catch some awesome tunes. I walked into a place near B.B. King’s and heard a bad ass Johnny Cash cover band and then heard dueling pianos (where they played the ECU fight song and Kentucky fight song depending on which fan paid them the most money) at some place whose name eludes me due to alcohol consumption.
If you are worried about the long drive, the editors of 200 Years Too Late have tossed together a playlist that you can download through LaLa to listen to on CD or through a mp3 player. We hope you enjoy it! Go Pirates! (Lala.com didn’t have the ECU fight song…sorry):
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