Feeling Kindred Spirits

Because I am a music fan by avocation and rock critic by vocation, this city - home to the legendary R&B and rock music labels Stax and Sun Records, Elvis Presley's Graceland, and artists as diverse as legendary soul titans Al Geen and Aretha Franklin, proto-power popsters Big Star and urban pop smoothie Justin Timberlake - was always on my list.

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