Memphis sits on the Mississippi River in southwest Tennessee, a city where blues, soul, and barbecue shape its identity. Beale Street brings live blues clubs, restaurants, and street music to downtown, Graceland preserves the home of Elvis Presley as a museum and pilgrimage site, and Sun Studio, where Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis recorded, still offers tours of its historic rooms. The National Civil Rights Museum, built around the former Lorraine Motel, tells the story of the civil rights movement, and the Mississippi River gives the city a working waterfront and river views.