Despite a long recording career that saw him cut at top studios in New York, Nashville and Hollywood, Elvis Presley’s most uniquely powerful work was captured in his hometown of Memphis. In August, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's no question Memphis helped make Elvis Presley who he was. During the course of his career, Presley would make some of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the course of a 20-year recording career, Elvis Presley would cut at the top studios in New York, Nashville and Hollywood, ...

McIntosh MTI100 Sun Records Limited Edition: integrated turntable with tube preamp, Bluetooth, and rare Johnny Cash vinyl for true audiophiles. Sun Records didn’t just record rock & roll—it set it on ...

Phillips spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about launching Elvis Presley's career at Sun Records. He also produced early recordings of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash. He died in 2003.

Presley is the center of the five-disc box set Memphis, while Cash's Songwriter draws on cuts from 1993. By Tom Roland They’ve both been gone for decades, and yet it’s still possible to hear two ...

Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch visits Sun Studio in Memphis, the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and discovers the sounds from the past that created the music genre. On a hot summer day in 1953, a ...

Let's get back to my 1997 interview with Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, the label that launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich and ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we continue our archive series - R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll. We start today's show with Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records. That's the ...