Experience the stax museum of american soul music memphis. This film features performances by many of the legendary labels significant 1960s. To make sure everyone who wanted to attend could, tickets were sold. Stax museum of american soul music prepares to close to help prevent coronavirus spread. The stax museum of american soul music is dedicated to preserving the memphis sound. Compared to the polished, popinfluenced soul music produced by. Bmg has seen a significant spike in streaming and downloading of. A memphis story will be hitting shelves to celebrate the. Memphis soul various artists on allmusic 2002 stax records issued countless classic soul and. The official stax records website, home to historic and influential artists such as otis redding, isaac hayes, booker t. Back to stax is a collection of live performances from the best of these artists. You can hear the sound of the guitar travel up to the back of the studio and then come back. The final instant grat track, going back to memphis by billy lee riley available.
Het label brengt southern soul, memphis soul, gospel, funk, jazz en bluesplaten uit. Later this month, a fivedisc box set titled stax 68. The most soulsatisfying performances from the 2003 concert at the grand opening of the stax museum in memphis. The new doublevinyl reissue, identical in appearance to the original 1969. This year marks the 60th anniversary of legendary memphis based record label stax records.
Founded in the capital of soul music, memphis, tennessee, in 1959, stax records went on to record classics by such legends as sam moore, carla thomas, and eddie floyd. The stax museum of american soul music currently features the. Soul music in memphis from great tunes to a goldplated cadillac, stax is back. From macon to memphis, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his death. Stax gave back to its africanamerican, music buying public utilizing its. I had back to stax vol1 on vhs tape from an original thames tv transmission in 1990, and was going to digitise it, when i found this marvellous dvd collection, which contains back to stax vol2, some more sessions with the artistes concerned. Parallel with this release, we in memphis also reap the benefits of two exhibits that help us journey back to those troubled times. For the legendary soul label stax records, there was no bigger year than 1968. Out of exile, back in soulsville the new york times. The release of the box set coincides with two exhibits presented by the stax museum of american soul music in memphis, the sound of 68 which documents life inside the companys studio a as. Filmed at midem in 1989, the band features booker t. Stax records was an american record label based in memphis, tennessee. Stax museum of american soul music prepares to close to. It was a major factor in the creation of southern and memphis soul music the label was founded by jim stewart and his sister.
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