Jeff Kollath, the executive director of the Stax Museum of American Soul, is stepping down. On Thursday, the museum announced that Kollath would be leaving his post on June 30, after more than nine ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy are hosting two free events this January, providing local families and young musicians the opportunity to engage in music ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late great blues guitarist and Mid-South music legend B.B. King would turn 100 in September. Ahead of his centenary, the Stax ...
You can't tell the story of Memphis, or really understand the magic of the Bluff City, without knowing about its music. No city on Earth packs as much musical history as Memphis, and for those ...
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music launched a website dedicated to the Bob Abrahamian collection. The collection includes rare recordings, interviews and radio shows from the late Chicago DJ and ...
The Memphis music studio where some of America’s most recognizable songs were recorded decades ago is now a museum. But next door, trumpets blare, drums boom, and singers craft the soulful sounds of ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. –At the Soulsville campus in South Memphis, home to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy, news of Steve Cropper’s death prompted a wave of emotion. “When I told ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Here, at 926 East McLemore Avenue -- home of the now-defunct Stax Records studio and one of the most famous addresses in American music history -- the soul is returning to a rundown ...
I don’t have any good excuses for why I went so long without visiting Memphis. I mean, I had been to Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Chicago and a number of our nation’s other great music capitals ...