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By Shannon Seaton, for SoundBoard In the height of 1960’s, the beacon of Memphis Soul Music shone bright. Multiple stand-out labels cut vinyl records during…
View More Tracking History: Hi Records, which brought the music of the people to the people during the Civil Rights Era
The publisher recalls his first brush with Elvis and Sun, through his father’s eight-tracks By Mark Fleischer Growing up in Southern California, I don’t have…
View More My Memphis Music Challenge: Elvis and Memphis by way of, click-click, 8-track tape
Memphis Mayhem is an insider’s history of the city’s sound By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org Ah, Memphis, the Southern capital of sin and song —…
View More Putting the Music First
For this October’s Memphis Music Month, StoryBoard asks our audience to share their music stories and memories If you’re a fan of Memphis music, chances…
View More Memphis, What’s your Memphis music story? Tell us!
Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural pays unique tribute to Dolly Parton By Emily Choate, for Chapter16.org Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural—part biography, part memoir,…
View More Love Letter to the Dollyverse
White’s eponymous solo debut from Nine Mile Records echoes the times By Shannon Seaton, for StoryBoard’s SoundBoard Inspiration is so often driven by challenge. Sometimes…
View More Coming apart, and back together, with William Luke White
Late R&B legend Denise LaSalle always called her own shots By Jacqueline Zeisloft, for Chapter16.org In her posthumous memoir, Always the Queen, the fiercely unapologetic Denise…
View More Queen’s Rules
A dreamlike, self-titled 4-song EP from an evolving musical project By Shannon Seaton It started as a kind of chant in his head that he…
View More On inspiration, intuition and breaking up: Daykisser takes us on a journey within
By Shannon Seaton Mark Edgar Stuart is never the type to shy from the difficult subjects. These are trying times in more ways than one.…
View More Blues meets Folk, in Mark Edgar Stuart’s FOLK BEEF
Rhythm-and-Bluesman Don Bryant’s new album You Make Me Feel, released in June, is just what the doctor ordered. By Ethan Williford In 2017, Memphis rhythm-and-bluesman…
View More At 78, Don Bryant Makes It Sound Easy