This narcissistic boomer retroactivism has codified a conception of blues-making as it was practiced by the great rural innovators - Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson and others who worked in and around the Mississippi Delta during the first years of the last century. Children of the rock era have worked hard to validate the music of their own time by historicizing it, adopting blues history as rock’s prehistory, and canonizing a select group of blues founders who best fit the image rockers like to project. The reputations of other early blues artists have ballooned, in some cases to the verge of overinflation. Handy, I’m rich and I’m fey / And I’m not familiar with what you played.”
It has been 35 years since James Baldwin paid tribute to Handy by employing a phrase from his “Beale Street Blues” as the title of a novel, and it has been almost as long since Joni Mitchell addressed Handy directly in her song about Beale Street, “Furry Sings the Blues.” Even then, what Mitchell sang was, “W. Handy, once so famous as “the Father of the Blues” that he was memorialized with a bronze monument in Memphis, is not nearly as well known today to people who are not either music scholars or copyright lawyers. If you’re hiking, go early in the day to snag a parking spot.If Beale Street could talk, it would say, “Who the hell is the guy depicted in that big statue by the entrance to the park?” W. Trailhead parking lots – smaller lots at popular hiking trailheads. This is a large lot, but it often fills up in the summer. Hiker’s Shuttle Buses stop here and take you to your trailhead.īear Lake parking lot at the end of Bear Lake Road. Visitor Center parking lots at Beaver Meadows and Fall River Visitor Centers.īear Lake/Glacier Basin Park and Ride Lot. Whether you’re pulling a trailer, driving an RV, captaining a bus or steering the family car, Estes Park has a spot just for you!įree Shuttle Buses Inside Rocky Mountain National Park
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Download the Estes Park Downtown Parking Map and Schedule (pdf) to find the lot that’s right for you.North on MacGregor Avenue and Bighorn Avenue, street parking is unlimited.Much of the on-street parking along Elkhorn Avenue, Moraine Avenue, Virginia Avenue and the side roads around Bond Park allows 3-hour stays. Additional parking areas around town present 3-hour and 1-hour options.Elkhorn Avenue and two others south of Elkhorn on Moraine Avenue offer all day parking. The Town Hall lot & Visitor Center lot along with three more on W.from either highway 34 or 36, making a right into the lot near the pedestrian crossing light. Access this lot by heading east on Elkhorn Ave. A large lot is located east of Town Hall at the junction of MacGregor and Elkhorn avenues.
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