Thanks to the UK’s The Telegraph for including the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in such good company in its new list of 10 musical attractions not to miss while on a Mississippi River cruise. The Mississippi River is an integral part of Memphis’ fascinating history and culture, which is being celebrated this year
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The Stax Museum has partnered with the Visible Music College in downtown Memphis and their new community radio station WVZM.org to bring you a series of podcasts about Stax Records. In this episode, Bonnie Whitehouse and others discuss women from Stax who were in front of the microphone cranking out hits and behind the scenes
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(Photograph © Jacob Blickenstaff) The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is sad to convey news about the death of one of its most loved “Stax Museum Family” members, John Gary Williams, founder and lead singer of the Stax group The Mad Lads and later a solo artist for the label. He died at his
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The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is helping celebrate its 16th birthday and the 200th birthday of the epicenter of American music, Memphis, Tennessee, by compiling a list of the 200 most indelible soul songs recorded in Memphis between 1957 and 1975. From Stax stars Otis Redding and Sam & Dave to Hi Records
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One of Universal Music Group’s websites, udiscovermusic.com, has named the Stax Museum one of “The Best Music Museums Around The World,” placing us in the company of Elvis Presley’s Graceland, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Beatles Story in Liverpool, Seattles’s Museum of Pop Culture, the Bob Marley Museum, and many others. Read the
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