MEMPHIS — The Soulsville Foundation, which operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, is pleased to announce it has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the

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By ALAN RICHARD (Photo by Nathan Black) MEMPHIS — Howard Grimes remembers that day at Royal Studios in 1972 when the groove just wouldn’t quit. Grimes was keeping time on the drums in the Hi Rhythm Section as they recorded Al Green’s “Love and Happiness,” which was later named one of the 100 best songs

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Pop icon, GRAMMY© Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Huey Lewis has teamed up with the London, UK/Austin, Texas-based Soundwaves Art Foundation to help raise funds for the nonprofit Stax Music Academy, an afterschool and summer music institute at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Soundwave’s Tim Wakefield has created an original

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