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

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

(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