Stax Records founder Jim Stewart will be honored posthumously on February 4, 2023 at The Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony by receiving the Grammy Trustees Award, placing him in the company of The Beatles, Les Paul, Walt Disney, Clive Davis, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, and Stax label mates Estelle Axton and Al Bell, who have
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During a special event on September 14, 2022 at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Soulsville Foundation officials, former Stax artists, and others announced plans for the museum’s 20th Anniversary to be celebrated throughout 2023. On hand for the announcement was special guest and Stax icon Booker T. Jones, keyboardist for Stax house band
Continue Reading nextThe Stax Museum of American Soul Music is offering admission-free field trips to all Title 1 Schools, with special emphasis on Memphis Shelby County Schools and schools in the South Memphis neighborhoods surrounding the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy. Field trips to the Stax Museum for students of all ages are a great way
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Iconic Memphis studios aim to enhance their legacies with restored vintage Stax recording console at Phillips Photos by Nathan Black. JANUARY 5, 2023 MEMPHIS, TN – Two of Memphis, Tennessee’s most prolific, iconic, and groundbreaking recording studios announced today that they are partnering to continue their legacies that changed the world in the 1950s and 1960s
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The Stax Museum of American Soul Music would like to wish Memphis Queen of Soul CARLA THOMAS a very Happy 80th Birthday today, December 21, 2022! We know her as our longtime friend and Stax Records icon, but many younger generations are getting to know her now because, in part, of her recent accomplishments. Carla
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