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Beale Street

Memphis blues-and-soul corridor that incubated B.B. King, W.C. Handy, Aretha Franklin, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

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Designated a National Historic Landmark and the "Home of the Blues." Three blocks of Memphis nightlife between Second and Fourth that have been a center of Black American music since the late 1860s.

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Beale Street, Memphis, TN, USA

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