Rockin’ Memphis
£18.95
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Label: ProperBox
Cat No: PROPERBOX143
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
About
This 4CD compilation looks at the music recorded in Memphis and its environs by native Memphians and shows the stupendous effect the sounds had on the world of popular music. Music had always abounded in Memphis but there were no recording facilities there, an omission that one Sam Phillips was about to rectify - he opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue on the 2nd of January 1950 and proceeded to record anything that moved, including weddings, funerals and artists for WREC radio.
He soon went on to record artists for record labels such as Gilt Edge and 4 Star and it didn't take more than a few months for him to record the likes of B B King, a young Ike Turner with Jackie Brenston, and madcap Rufus Thomas.
Come 1952 Sam started his own record label, Sun, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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