Museum
Jefferson Street Sound
Storefront music museum of guitars, photographs and memorabilia from a historic Black nightclub strip.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Jefferson Street Sound Museum in Nashville starts with two ordinary guitars hanging by the front door and traces the street's nineteen forties through sixties heyday, when a teenage soldier stationed nearby began sitting in with the neighborhood's blues and doo-wop acts. It follows him through a shared apartment above a beauty parlor and a club called the Del Morocco, then into the nineteen sixty-eight interstate project that reshaped the block you are standing on. Founder Lorenzo Washington's decision to preserve what was left runs alongside it.
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