OUR STAFF JEFF KOLLATH Executive Director, Stax Museum 901-261-6352 Send a Message JAYNE WHITE Director, Marketing and Sales, Stax Museum 901-261-6322 Send a Message DENETRA GEE Museum Manager, Stax Museum 901-261-6359 Send a Message CANDISS PITRE Retail Store Manager, Stax Museum 901-261-6322 Send a Message PAT MITCHELL WORLEY President & CEO, Soulsville Foundation 901-261-6345 Send
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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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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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