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Southern Living: Soul Music in Memphis – From great tunes to a gold-plated Cadillac, Stax is back.

Smokey Robinson said it best. “When that Detroit sound of Motown traveled south of the Mason-Dixon, it was different.” You’ll find out just how different when you walk into the new Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. Here you’ll find 17,000 square feet of sights and sounds you’ve heard all your life: Isaac

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Stax Museum featured on C-SPAN Cities Tour

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2018 LCV Cities Tour” at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee, from September 15-21, 2018, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors,

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Stax Museum turns 15

The Stax Museum recently celebrated its 15th anniversary with an event that also honored Stax legend and longtime Memphis musician Floyd Newman. The catered affair included Ike Griffith from Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland’s Youth Services Division reading a proclamation that proclaimed May 3, 2018 Stax Museum and Floyd Newman Day. Read more here from the

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