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How to Get the Most Out of Memphis’ Music Culture
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Siblings Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton founded the iconic soul label Stax, known for bringing together Black and white band members in the 1960s with stars who shaped the sound of American music, including Booker T. & the M.G.’s, and Otis Redding, among countless others. Within its walls are innumerable record covers, exhibits, and memorabilia, including a reconstructed church brought from rural Mississippi, and even Isaac Hayes’ 1972 fur-lined, gold trimmed, baby blue Cadillac Eldorado. Mary Helen Randall, the communications director of the Soulsville Foundation, presses upon the importance of Stax; “It serves as a bridge between the past and the present, inspiring new generations of musicians while honoring the groundbreaking music created here at the same corner of College and McLemore more than 60 years ago.”
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