Backbeat Tours

Our tour guide was Memphis Jones. He handed out tamborines and shaker eggs and we had a great time enjoying the music that he played during the very informative and entertaining tour. Highly recommend!

Time flew by on the Memphis Mojo tour. The music was terrific and the commentary was absolutely fascinating. Not like any tour I've ever taken. My husband and I enjoyed it immensely.

Had a great time. Lots of fun

Very entertaining. Certainly worth the price.

The tour was great. Memphis Jones was a most execllent tour guide/ perfomer/ comedian.

We had a fantastic time with Memphis Jones as our tour leader. Entertaining and informative, it was just the right thing to get our bearing in Memphis and understand some of the amazing history. We sang songs and played instruments and had a thoroughly enjoyable time! Well recommended.

A 90 minute walk around a few blocks in downtown Memphis, witha a lot of talk and not much more.

A great way to get a musical history of Memphis. The tour guide was outstanding and a excellent musician as well.

Interesting history with a macabre twist. If a few more stops could be added that may make it a little more interesting but it was an interesting tour was just surprised there wasn't a little more having been on a number of haunted tours in other Cities I would have thought Memphis had a little darker past or at least was hoping it did. The picture taking to find orbs was an ok twist but since I'm more interested in the darker history and less of a believer in orbs I was hoping for a little more story and less gimmick.

We really enjoyed the tour and would recommend this tour to others. We had a great time in participating in the songs. It brought back a lot of memories. The tour was very informational about the history of Memphis. We will be back next time we visit Memphis. Thanks for the Great Time.

Lots of fun on this one. Gary Hardy did a great job as entertainer and historian. I had no idea the tour guides were this involved in the music scene, and Gary is a Memphis lifer which makes his insight and historical knowledge even more poignant.

This tour was the highlight of our trip to Memphis as it showcased the culture, history, music, geography and magic of the city. Our tour guide, Gary Hardy, provided detailed and interesting facts through his own research and experiences. He knew many of the legends and could play their music flawlessly. We will take this tour again if we get back to Memphis in the future.

Gary gave great insights into the historical streams that created the Memphis sound, from the cotton fields and the Blues to the rock and roll of Elvis and Jerry Lee.

Gary made this tour! No one could tell all these stories with the personal touches he adds. Any other guide would just be telling you stories they've learned, Gary has lived them. Thanks to Gary for saving Sun Records! Gary, you should shoot a documentary history for PBS, it would be wonderful. The local PBS TV station should partner with you to do a detailed historical story, much like "Eyes on the Prize". There's a local historian in Louisville, KY named Tom Owens and he has done a series of DVDs of the history of different neighborhoods in Louisville, and he doesn't have 1/2 the material you shared on just a 90 minute tour. He could probably give guidance as well. Thanks for a great tour, I wish we'd had 4 hours!

Jessica knew a lot of the local stories (beyond just the ghost stories) which always adds to the enjoyment of any tour. We always enjoy ghost tours that are part architectural and part history as well. Morgan was excellent as well.