2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.31(2)_大学英语听力

2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.31(2)

　　On April 4, 1968, a white man named James Earl Ray shot the civil rights leader. Martin Luther King was in Memphis to support waste collection workers on strike against the city. Most of the striking workers were black.

　　In 1991, voters in Memphis elected the first black mayor of the city. The National Civil Rights Museum opened that same year.

　　Also in 1991, the famed blues singer and guitarist B.B. King opened his own blues club on Beale Street. B.B. King is known for songs like this one, called Caldonia.

　　People who come to Tennessee can also see a huge bronze statue of B.B. King at the Tennessee Welcome Center.

　　Something else to see is the Memphis Rock n Soul Museum on Beale Street.

　　The Rock n Soul Museum explores the music and culture of the city. It shows how blues, country and soul music came together in Memphis and how they spread around the world.

　　Elvis Presley Gets His Start in Memphis

　　Many experts say rock and roll began in Memphis. And a man named Sam Phillips played a big part. Sam Phillips was a white record producer in Memphis in the 1950s. He produced records by local black musicians and early recordings by rock and roll performers Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. One day, an 18-year-old truck driver came to the studio. He wanted to record a song for his mother. That young man was Elvis Presley.