Visit USA Travel Planner 2025 Intro

PETER ELLEGARD

Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum while Rosin is where the “Father of Bluegrass”, Bill Monroe, grew up. A two-year exhibition dedicated to one of the genre’s most famous exponents, the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, opened in May 2024. Branson, Missouri, is another bluegrass hotspot.

Justin Fox Burks

COUNTRY ROADS The Mississippi Country Music Trail includes Elvis Presley’s birthplace and childhood home in Tupelo. Virginia’s 300-mile Crooked Road takes in Bristol, where a museum highlights country music’s beginnings. Also drive the Rhythm and Routes Oklahoma Music Trail.

PICTURED Main image: Honky-tonk bars on Lower Broadway, Nashville. The district is famous for the numerous country music entertainment establishments. Above: All that Jazz in New Orleans; Below: Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley, is now the singer's much-visited home and final resting place; The Motown Museum in Detroit; Blues Hall of Fame, Memphis

The BB King Museum in Indianola, Mississippi, now features a 1978 Rolls-Royce and a 1984 Chevrolet the Delta Blues guitarist owned

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