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Memphis's streets are well marked, and there's plenty of parking, so the city is best explored by car.
Sam Phillips' modest studio is the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, where Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison, among others, launched their careers. Tours are given every 30 minutes beginning at 10 am. The studio is seven blocks east of Downtown.
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