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Seventy-one years ago today (Jan. 3, 1950) was an historic day for country music, although no one was aware of it at the time: It was on that date that the famous Sun Studio home of future recordings from Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others opened in Memphis, Tenn.
Sam Phillips, a radio engineer at Memphis radio station WREC-AM, opened Sun Studio originally named Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Ave., along with his good friend and assistant, Marion Keister. Phillips also opened Phillips Records with his friend DJ Dewey Phillips (no relation), but they failed to produce any hit records.
Midwest Farmer s
Daughter. The singer and her husband, fellow artist Jeremy Ivey, saved up money for years in order to pay for the studio time, pawning some of their most prized possessions.
The result is one of the iconic modern-day albums that prove Sun s enduring legacy. A cutting, insightful project that puts a modern spin on timeless country strophes,
Midwest Farmer s Daughter draws on the traditional stylings of Price s icons many of whom came of age in the same walls where she records the project.
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Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins + Elvis Presley
On Dec. 4, 1956, an all-star impromptu jam session led to an unforgettable series of recordings. According to Sun Records website, it all started when Carl Perkins came into the studio to cut some new music. Perkins brought a skeleton crew of musicians with him, but Phillips hoping to fill out the lineup enlisted Jerry Lee Lewis, who was at that time still a relatively unknown pianist. Different retelling