News about the Stax Museum’s “biSoultennial” contest in which voters from around the world voted for their Top Ten Memphis soul songs to help celebrate Memphis’ 200th birthday is starting to spread now that the results are in. Here is the latest from Hollywood.com. Read full story HERE.
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In late May 2019, to help celebrate Memphis’ 200th birthday along with other celebrations happening around the city, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music launched a new contest coined “biSoultennial,” creating a Spotify list of 200 Memphis soul songs recorded between 1957 and 1975 and including some Stax hits but many others from other
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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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