Mississippi. Elvis always loved music, even when he was a young boy. Living in Mississippi, he was exposed to many different from of music from, white country, popular radio, and jamboree to gospel music and possibly even the field hollers and work songs of local black farm workers. He got his first guitar at age eleven. Two years later the Presley’s moved to Memphis, Tennessee. In his late teens, in the early 1950’s Elvis was often seen on Beale Street, the place where Blues music began. He was shy and lacked…
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