driving in my big black car…

“…nothing can go wrong. I’m going and I don’t know how far. So, so long.” So sang Memphis/New Orleans legend Alex Chilton in the song “Big Black Car” by his band Big Star.

Another legend, Otis Redding who left his home in Georgia and headed to 926 East McLemore Avenue, the address of Stax Records in Memphis, sang about cars among other things in his classic duet with Carla Thomas, “Tramp”

Carla: “You know what, Otis? I don’t care what you say. You’re still a tramp. That’s right. You haven’t even got a fat bankroll in your pocket.
You probably haven’t even got twenty-five cents.”

Otis: “I got six Cadillacs, five Lincolns, four Fords, six Mercuries, three T-Birds, Mustang. Ooh, I’m a lover…”