(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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As Memphis celebrates is bicentennial this year, there are many reasons to visit the city: food, Beale Street, Graceland, The Memphis Rock N Soul Museum, Old Dominick Distillery, and many others, including, according to USA Today, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music! Read the full list and story HERE.
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Are you a high school teen with the gifts and grit to further the mission of Stax? This summer’s Camp Stax will focus on different ways to present, promote, and interpret the art, history, and culture of the Memphis sound and its influences on past, present, and a new generation of soul. In this bicentennial
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