It was at this home that Jay Reatard witnessed the events that led to his Lost Sounds' song "1620 Echles St."

To hear him tell this very disturbing story, go to 10:54 of the video here.

view full location details...

Jay Reatard (Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr.) lived at this location as a youth. It was at this home that he recorded some of his first demos at the age of 15, using a four track while banging on a plastic pickle bucket for drums. It was also while living here that Reatard decided to stop attending school.

view full location details...

In the documentary about Jay Reatard Better Than Something, there is footage of a young Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr. (real name) performing at this record store.

Shangri-La Records store owner Shermon Wilmot remarks that "he was almost an Elvis-like figure, but angrier."

Jay Reatard brought in his first demo tapes to this record store. Eric Oblivian (of the Oblivians) was working there, heard the tape, and decided to release it.

view full location details...

This house at the corner of Nelson and S. McLean Blvd is where Jay Reatard (Jimmy Lee Lindsey, Jr.) used to live and record. The interior of the house and Reatard's recording setup can be seen extensively in the bio-doc Better Than Something. Some interesting moments of conversation from that film come as Reatard is swinging on the front porch of this location.

On January 13, 2010, Reatard passed away at this same location from a combination of cocaine toxicity and alcohol. He was 29 years old.

Watch a short version of the documentary, called Waiting for Something.

view full location details...

This is the approximate spot where Jeff Buckley waded into the Wolf River on the night of May 29, 1997. He was in Tennessee with his band that spring to resume working on his second album My Sweetheart, the Drunk. The Wolf River can be deceptive right there between downtown Memphis and the Mud Island Peninsula right before the river intersects with the Mississippi, and so Jeff Buckley, accompanied by roadie Keith Foti, wasn't thinking of the vicious undertow caused by passing boats when he walked in wearing his clothes and boots.

He sang Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" while he swam to the middle of the river. Foti, who stayed on shore, lost sight of him after a tugboat went by, and Buckley's body wasn't discovered until June 4th near a riverboat in the Mississippi. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. He was thirty years old.

view full location details...