Memphis and Shelby County formally affirmed their “sister city” relationship with a longtime cultural ally, Porretta Terme, a ...
The Lincoln band, representing the Blues Society of Omaha, took the band division of the competition in Memphis, Tennessee ... was home to soul legends Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs and ...
Redding soon started playing with local bands and came to the attention of Atlantic Records, who signed Otis and sent him to record at the legendary Stax studios in Memphis, recording, among ...
The Hall of Fame honors a variety of people with Memphis roots who are now considered pioneers in the industry: Sam Phillips, of Sun Studio fame and who discovered Elvis; Otis Redding, considered ...
"Defying the notion that Black artists needed to be 'made marketable,' the Memphis-based label went ... the label itself has gone." Related: Otis Redding III, Guitarist and Son of Otis Redding ...