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  • The flag of the State of Alabama on car bumper 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Jounalist, Katy Regan, 4 months pregnant, posing outside a refurbished cotton planters shack at the Shack Up Inn whilst on a road trip of the American southern states. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn.
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  • Church in North Carolina . You can’t drive through the southern states, 'Bible Belt' of  America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is sign opposite a typical wooden built chapel. Other signs near by read: “The Church is a rest home for sinners not a hospital for saints” or simply “alcohol is a sin”.
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  • Road side baptist Church in Arkabutla, Senatobia. You can’t drive through the southern states, ‘Bible belt” of America without passing lots of churches. This really is a God fearing part of the world with religion everywhere: in the gospel music, sermons on the radio and lots of vast signs on the road advertising directly for your soul. Pictured here is a is typical wooden built chapel photographed as the light begins to fade.
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  • Freight rail track on 5th March 2020 in the centre of Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. The Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroadis a short line railroad operating from 2003 to 2006 between Columbus, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama, on former Central of Georgia and Norfolk Southern tracks. In 2006, the railroad was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and combined with the adjacent H and S Railroad out of Dothan to form the Chattahoochee Bay Railroad. Commodities include chemicals, forest products, food products, and feed, which generate approximately 5,500 annual carloads.
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  • Freight rail track on 5th March 2020 in the centre of Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. The Chattahoochee and Gulf Railroadis a short line railroad operating from 2003 to 2006 between Columbus, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama, on former Central of Georgia and Norfolk Southern tracks. In 2006, the railroad was acquired by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and combined with the adjacent H and S Railroad out of Dothan to form the Chattahoochee Bay Railroad. Commodities include chemicals, forest products, food products, and feed, which generate approximately 5,500 annual carloads.
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  • Lindsey Maples and friend Robert Montgomery hanging out as the sun begins to set in Arkabutla, Tennessee. The trick of the road trip experience  in Southern USA is to get off the main highways as often as possible: it’s the best  way to meet the real America. Despite the stereotype of red neck America that is portrayed you are more likely to meet a friendly and hospitable folk interested in you as you are in them.
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  • Western playing in the breakfast room of a motel in Senatobia  just off route 55.TN. Part of the attraction of a road trip is just hitting the tarmac and seeing where you will end up. When the budget doesn’t run to a  fabulous hotel you can always plump for rough and ready and possibly film noir  at the thousands of bargain priced motels around the states. One can normally get clean sheets and a comfortable bed for the night but if not it all adds to the classic road trip experience.
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  • House crushed by tree in the path of a hurricane on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Barbers shop by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pink Lincoln Limousine parked by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pink Lincoln Limousine parked by the roadside on 5th March 2020 in Alford, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Empty yellow house by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • World War 2 Veterans Memorial Mural, on a closed store on 5th March 2020 in Cottonwood, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Farmhouse by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Derelict abandoned house by Highway on 5th March 2020 near Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Pram outside the S&M Cafe on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Buddys Shoe Shine Shop sign on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Buddy has been shining shoes for 50 years. Buddy doesnt say a whole lot, and he doesnt charge a whole lot either. ... Buddys shoe shining, a smile, a handshake and a couple of bucks can get your shoes heading in the right direction.
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  • Man waiting outside lawyers office on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Lady Justice Latin: Iustitia is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are a blindfold, a balance, and a sword. Her balance has disappeared.
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  • Mural in downtown Dothan carpark, highlighting the history of the area on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Most of the murals commemorate something about this section of Alabama, known as the Wiregrass area. Wes Hardin has been commissioned to tell the story of the industrial growth of Dothan, where he makes his home. He has painted the stories of turpentine and logging, of cotton and railroads. He has been commissioned to tell the story of soda fountains and businesses, of Sherman Rose, who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, and of musical legends in the Wiregrass.
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  • Mural in downtown Dothan carpark, sponsored by a local church, highlighting the history of the area on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America. Most of the murals commemorate something about this section of Alabama, known as the Wiregrass area. Wes Hardin has been commissioned to tell the story of the industrial growth of Dothan, where he makes his home. He has painted the stories of turpentine and logging, of cotton and railroads. He has been commissioned to tell the story of soda fountains and businesses, of Sherman Rose, who trained the Tuskegee Airmen, and of musical legends in the Wiregrass.
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  • Statue remembering the victims of crime outside courthouse on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Rush hour traffic on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Steel bull In The Entrance To Pike County Cattlemen Park on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted Pioneer Village of Alabama, a 19th-century farmstead with old buildings & artefacts, originally used as a shopping village, on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European, African or American society.
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  • Deserted Pioneer Village of Alabama, a 19th-century farmstead with old buildings & artefacts, originally used as a shopping village, on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European, African or American society.
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  • Deserted Pioneer Village of Alabama, a 19th-century farmstead with old buildings & artefacts, originally used as a shopping village, on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. The term especially refers to those who were going to settle any territory which had previously not been settled or developed by European, African or American society.
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  • World Famous BBQ barbecue House on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. Alabama barbecue is generally fueled by hickory wood, but oak and pecan are also used. Across Alabama, smoked pork—chipped, chopped, and sliced—is piled on hamburger buns and often topped with coleslaw, with dill pickles added as a defining condiment.
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  • On route 231 a neon pig advertising the World Famous BBQ barbecue House, to passing traffic on 5th March 2020 in Troy, Alabama, United States of America. Alabama barbecue is generally fueled by hickory wood, but oak and pecan are also used. Across Alabama, smoked pork—chipped, chopped, and sliced—is piled on hamburger buns and often topped with coleslaw, with dill pickles added as a defining condiment.
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  • Motel shot at night on the outskirts of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Part of the attraction of a road trip is just hitting the tarmac and seeing where you will end up. When the budget doesn’t run to a fabulous hotel you can always plump for rough and ready and possibly film noir at the thousands of bargain priced motels around the states. One can normally get clean sheets and a comfortable bed for the night but if not it all adds to the classic road trip experience.
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  • House by Highway on 5th March 2020 in Graceville, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Highway 53 road junction on 5th March 2020 in Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Police station with 5-foot-tall peanut sculptures of policeman on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan,  The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Deserted shop front on 5th March 2020 in Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Behind abandoned shops, restaurants and workshops on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Exotic magazine shop front on 5th March 2020 in downtown Dothan, The Peanut Capital of the World, Alabama, United States of America.
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  • Lonely tree in Clarksdale seems to echo the loneliness of the blues heritage in the town. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith and ZZ Top are some of the many musicians who have put Clarksdale on the map: with its own blues museum on Blues Alley it is no surprise to hear that  Clarksdale it is famous for being ‘the birth place of the Blues’. However the cotton pickers migration north after the introduction of mechanization  took  something of the blues soul with them with the blues museum as important an institution as any of the remaining blues joints .
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  • This truck seems to be pulling the Corn like a load direcly from the field and is evocative of the relationship to land and transport the Americans have always had, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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  • Razor Blade (real name Josh Stuart) as he calls himself has been playing blues since the sixties with his band the Deep Cuts “they kinda know me around these parts.” It helps to work 15 hours in the cotton fields to really sing the blues he explains. Something these white wannabe blues singers don’t really understand. With the cotton pickers migration north after the introduction of mechanization it is no surprise that something of the blues soul has left with them. The blues museum (0pposite in Blues Alley) is now as important an institution as any of the remaining blues joints.
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  • A pilot relaxes after a hards work crop dusting infront of his plane, Clarksdale; Mississippi.
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  • VW van parked opposite redundant farm buildings near Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future. Hopson was the first plantation to convert completely to the mechanical cotton pickers. Soon afterward, the sharecropper shacks where the plantation's workers had lived were abandoned and then torn down. But now they're back at the Shack Up Inn, Mississippi's oldest B&B -- and that's bed and beer, y'all. "We don't fool around with any fixing of breakfasts," said Bill Talbot, part owner of the inn.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed. A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This multi story carpark  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
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  • Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them. It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened. The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi.
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  • The famous Blue Ridge Parkway, a breathtaking highway through the Appalacian Mountains. This was shot in The Great Smoky Mountain Park near Robbinsville NC, taken as part of a 2700 mile two week road trip from Atlanta Georgia through Tennessee and Mississippi to New Orleans. There is great feeling of  freedom when you know you have  two weeks away from work  and responsibility and nothing but open road before you.
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  • Casino on converted steamer, Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk. This elegant historic town with its pillar fronted houses and cotton legacy  is transformed as the remains of a storm at sunset  turn the sky iridescent. There are perhaps defining moments on all big trips. Arriving in Vicksburg, Mississippi at dusk just as a  huge thunderstorm was beginning to break was one of them . <br />
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“It had been raining so hard, that an alligator had mistook the<br />
four-lane Interstate for the swollen Mississippi beside it and tragically met its death there. But as we drew into elegant Vicksburg, with its pillar-fronted houses on hilly streets, something astonishing happened.<br />
The sky, the result of a hot, setting sun, and the remains of a storm, was suddenly alive with an iridescent glow, so otherworldly, it looked like a space ship had landed.  A rainbow stretched between two red brick towers, and you could just hear hear a steamer's horn, as it edged its way down the mighty Mississippi
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  • Blues singer outside the Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, Mississippi. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, and ZZ Top are some of the many musicians who have put Clarksdale on the map: with its own blues museum on Blues Alleyit is no surprise to hear that  Clarksdale it is famous for being ‘the birth place of the Blues’.
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  • A man trys out a guitar at Gruhn (Fourth Ave. and Broadway, Nashville) With its 3,000-square-foot showroom and massive inventory of vintage instruments it attracts both mortal and celebrity alike. Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top has purchased more than 100 guitars from Gruhn, according to owner and founder George Gruhn. "I've sold at least 50 vintage guitars to Eric Clapton," he adds. "Whenever Eric is in town, he comes and visits."
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  • Mail-box on the road leading into Robbinsville, North Carolina. Although this picture is typical of the road side view one gets when driving through the US. The US flag depicted in this context reflects the increased visibility of the stars and stripes post 9/11 and evokes a more sinister interpretation of this picture.
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  • trail of car headlights photographed at  at night in Vicksberg, Mississippi.
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  • Dusk falls on a typical Mississippi veranda in a Hopper-esque fashion. Between Nesbit and Sardis just off route 55, Mississippi. When Driving through the Bible belt its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America.
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  • Matt Walton Posing with  his car  Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson,Tennessee, with his family in the background. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around: that’s when you get to meet the real America. Matts car looked like it was worth more than his house.
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  • Elvis‘ collection of best selling records hangs in a corridor at Graceland his home when he was alive and now a museum dedicated to all things Elvis.It would be easy to expect  Graceland to be an over-rated tourist attraction. But as it is  you could go in there Elvis indifferent and come out a fan. The house has been left exactly as it was when Elvis died in 1977. It’s not huge, in terms of superstars mansions now and although it is done in showy taste - all shag pile walls, heart shaped beds and white  leather sofas, the design has been left exactly as Elvis created it.<br />
Graceland is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116
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  • The three musicians depicted  have ties to Clarksdale: this mural is located on the side of Carmen's Pawn shop at the corner of Sunflower and 2nd St. The city of Clarksdale is known as ”the land where the blues began”.
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  • Dunk'n doughnuts restaurant  opposite the legendary  crossroads of Highways 49 and 61. In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, no one who heard him could believe he was the same man. He blew everyone away, playing the songs that would make him famous, among them "Cross Road Blues" and "Me And The Devil Blues."<br />
Rumours started and a myth was born :Johnson did a deal with the devil here at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 and sold his soul in return for his musical abilities. Whatever  the truth fans on the way to  the historic Blues town of Clarksdale and its  Delta Blues Museum will often stop at Abe's Bar B Q  or  the Dunk'n doughnuts restaurant on the intersection and pay homage.
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  • Daisy, waitressing at a waffle house on 10 Highway, Baton Rouge. One of the joys of a road trip is sampling the many original 'dinner' restaurants built in the fifties and still with all the original fittings and  fixtures “happy days” style.
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  • The legendary crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 outside Clarksdake, Mississippi. In the juke joints around Clarksdale, Mississippi, Robert Johnson was known as the kid who could barely play the guitar he often carried. Stories are told of musicians inviting Johnson to join them on stage, knowing that, before he got very far, the audience would be laughing. He disappeared for a while. When he returned, no one who heard him could believe he was the same man. He blew everyone away, playing the songs that would make him famous, among them "Cross Road Blues" and "Me And The Devil Blues." Rumours started and a myth was born :Johnson did a deal with the devil here at the crossroads of Highways 49 and 61 and sold his soul in return for his musical abilities. Whatever  the truth fans on the way to  the historic Blues town of Clarksdale and and its  Delta Blues Museum will often stop at Abe's Bar B Q on the intersection and pay homage.
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  • Handyman Matt Walton with his son, Nathan and partner outside their home, Lower Brownsville Rd, Jackson, Tennessee. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • Nathan Walton In his back yard swimming pool, Lower Brownsville Rd. Jackson, Tennessee  with his father Matt, mother and friend in back ground. When Driving through Tennessee its great to get off the main highways and just cruise around:  that’s when you get to meet the real America. I saw this guys amazing, souped up car  outside what was pretty much a shack and thought wow! Every penny that guy gets goes on his car.
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  • The World famous Tootsies  bar on  Broadway  Nashville.  Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the self styled  home of country  music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Tourists relaxing by  a motel swimming pool that just happens to over look the four lane highway route 55, Senatobia, MS. In America the car and lifestyle are so inseparable that this juxtaposition of leisure activity  and  motorways seems perfectly normal and is a common sight in the US .
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  • Photographed in the neighbourhood of Robbinsville  these children are all looked after by their grandmother over the summer holidays: with a little help from a satellite dish and  125 channels of television.
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  • Elvis presley's grave is a shrine and place of Pilgrimage to the thousands of Elvis fans  who worship his music decades after his death on August 16 1977. It would be easy to expect  Graceland to be an over-rated tourist attraction. But as it is,  you could go in there Elvis indifferent, and come out a fan. The house has been left exactly as it was when Elvis died in 1977. It’s not huge, in terms of superstars mansions now and although it is done in showy taste - all shag pile walls, heart shaped beds and white  leather sofas, the design has been left exactly as Elvis created it.<br />
Graceland is located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, TN 38116
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  • The Hard Rock Café, Nashville. Nashville  is the capital of Tennessee  and the self styled  home of country music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Johnny Ville ( possible Elvis wannabe)  showing  his moves  outside  the  world famous Tootsies  bar on  Broadway has come to Nashville to develop his musical career: a natural performer and self promoter "Elvis was my daddy”  and "I've only been down to Nashville for a week and I've already got myself a record deal" he claims,  Johnny doesn’t have a permanent address and seems to rove around trying to make a few bucks with his guitar. It seems the romantic spirit of Nashville is alive and well. Nashville is the capital of Tennessee  and the self styled  home of country  music. Today There is still some great music to be found but one has to navigate some typical  US commercialism  in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Johnny Ville pictured here inside the world famous Tootsies bar on  Broadway has come to Nashville to develop his musical career. Nashville  is the Hollywood of Country Music and wannabe stars from all over the world flock there to make their fortune.  Johnny is a natural performer and self promoter "Elvis was my daddy” he claims and promises to buy us a Cadillac when he is famous),  Johnny doesn’t have a permanent address and seems to rove around trying to make a few bucks with his guitar. It seems the romantic spirit of Nashville is alive and well. Today There is still some great music to be found in Nashville  but one has to navigate some typical US commercialism in the search as  the town cashes in on its reputation.
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  • Original 'Blues brother' style Dodge Monaco police car at the Shack Up Inn, Clarksdale. If you want to explore Clarksdale and the Blues country in true retro fashion the best place to do so is by staying at the Shack Up Inn. In The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, author Nicholas Lemman describes how, on Oct. 2, 1944, a crowd of 3,000 people quietly watched the first public demonstration of the mechanical cotton picker at Hopson's plantation in Clarksdale. At best, wrote Lemman, a skilled field hand could pick 20 pounds of cotton in an hour; the mechanical picker picked 1,000 pounds. Hopson calculated that a bale of cotton (500 pounds) cost $39.41 to pick by hand and $5.26 by machine. It wasn't too hard to foresee the future.
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  • Barbecue area at Arka Butla Lake,  Senatobia, Mississippi. One of the great attractions of the US is the wonderful opportunities to sit down, break open the cool box and enjoy some wonderful countryside: getting  close to nature and dinner all at the same time.
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  • The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It is known for its legal cases against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, and for promoting tolerance education programs.
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  • Discount tobacco drive-in store on 28th February 2020 in Morgan City, Louisianna, United States. Back when it was launched in 1991, this Southern Louisiana business founded by Fred Hoyt consisted of one store known as Cheap-O-Depot—the second tobacco store in the whole state of Louisiana. By 2000, there were seven stores in the chain. Next, in 2003, a totally new concept was introduced when Hoyt’s son, Richard, joined the business and initiated a drive-thru era and a new name, Smoke ’N Go. (photo by Barry Lewis/In<br />
Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Vote or Die headline on a poster to encourage African Americans to vote in the democratic primary on 3rd March 2020 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Voter suppression is rife in Alabama: a report from March 2020 by the Southern Poverty Law Centre shows that it is difficult to register and to vote, especially for African Americans. Alabama and its Governor Kay Ivey deem the vote as a privilege to be protected rather than a right for all. It is feared that voter suppression will be a key element of Trump’s campaign in the 2020 elections.
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  • The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, honours 40 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968 on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The concept of Lins design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. It was inspired by a passage from Martin Luther Kings speeches.
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  • The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, honours 40 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968 on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The concept of Lins design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. It was inspired by a passage from Martin Luther Kings speeches.
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  • The Civil Rights Memorial, designed by Maya Lin, honours 40 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968 on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The concept of Lins design is based on the soothing and healing effect of water. It was inspired by a passage from Martin Luther Kings speeches.
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  • Henderson high school voting station, Super Tuesday primaries on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Super Tuesday is the United States presidential primary election day in February or March when the greatest number of U.S. states hold primary elections and caucuses. Approximately one-third of all delegates to the presidential nominating conventions can be won on Super Tuesday, more than on any other day. The results on Super Tuesday are therefore a strong indicator of the likely eventual nominee of each political party.
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  • Henderson high school voting station, Super Tuesday primaries on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Super Tuesday is the United States presidential primary election day in February or March when the greatest number of U.S. states hold primary elections and caucuses. Approximately one-third of all delegates to the presidential nominating conventions can be won on Super Tuesday, more than on any other day. The results on Super Tuesday are therefore a strong indicator of the likely eventual nominee of each political party.
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  • Equal Justice Initiative offices on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Lawyer and justice advocate Bryan Stevenson set up the Equal Justice Initiative in 1995, using his MacArthur grant money to support it and guarantee a defence of anyone in Alabama sentenced to the death penalty. Alabama was the only state at the time that did not provide legal assistance to people on death row.
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  • People ice skating around the Wollman Rink in the southern park of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America.  Snow surrounds the public ice rink.
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  • People ice skating around the Wollman Rink in the southern park of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America.  Snow surrounds the public ice rink.
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  • People ice skating around the Wollman Rink in the southern park of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America.  Snow surrounds the public ice rink.
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  • A Maya Angelou quote, painted on a car park wall, close by the various Civil Rights museums on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Downtown Montgomery is now attracting new visitors due to the recently built Stevenson memorial and museum.
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  • A life-size statue of the famed country music legend, Hank Williams stands where his career started, in the center of the Riverfront Entertainment District on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Despite his brief life, he died aged 29 with a history of alcoholism and prescription drug abuse, he is regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century. Williams recorded 35 singles that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one.
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  • Painting celebrating Dr Marin Luther King on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. There is no statue of Dr Martin Luther King in Montgomery, only street art and the King Memorial Baptist Church.  The Confederate presence in the form of monuments, statues, annual celebrations is much stronger.
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  • Sign for gunshow on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Montgomery County residents’ now have constitutional right to bear arms. The Montgomery County Commissioners Court unanimously passed a resolution to make the county a gun sanctuary. The resolution was introduced by Commissioner Charlie Riley who said he wanted to take steps to protect citizens’ guns after politicians like Democrat Beto O’Rourke said he’d take away people’s guns and also called for a mandatory buyback of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles. It also says the county will not authorize or appropriate government funds or resources, “for the purpose of enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of any element of such acts, laws, orders, mandates, rules or regulations, that infringe on the right by the people to keep and bear arms.
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  • Photo of vintage cars on garage forecourt with circus flyer announcement on 28th February 2020 in Wisner, Mississippi, United States.
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  • Abandoned home on 28th February 2020 in Wisner, Mississippi, United States.
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  • Visitors stand on ancient graffiti-covered rocks in Saguaro National Park, outside of Tucson Arizona. Saguaro is usually thought of as a Cactus sanctuary but these tourists stand on and clamber over the natural rock formation. The oldest rocks found in the area, although not directly in the park, are granites and metamorphic rocks which represent the original crust of Southern Arizona. These rocks are approximately 1.7 billion years old and belong to an era of geologic time known as the Precambian. The metamorphic rocks are mostly schist
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  • Private security used in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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  • Dana Kings Guided By Justice statue, dedicated to black women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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  • Dana Kings Guided By Justice statue, dedicated to black women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott standing in The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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  • Dana Kings Guided By Justice statue, dedicated to black women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott and collectively walked thousands of miles, stands inside The National Memorial For Peace And Justice in Montgomery, Alabama on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The national memorial  commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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  • The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. These are the caskets waiting to be accepted by each individual county and erected in their soil to not only recognise the victims of lynching but for each community to begin its own local process of acknowledgement and responsibility for the past. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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  • The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a national memorial to commemorate the victims of lynching in the United States on 3rd March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. These are the caskets waiting to be accepted by each individual county and erected in their soil to not only recognise the victims of lynching but for each community to begin its own local process of acknowledgement and responsibility for the past. Current research shows that 4,084 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950. More than 85% of the lynchings took place in the Southern states.
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