Summer Reading: Sam Phillips

Digging into the landmark bio of rock & roll’s colonel

"...a definitive biography on the man who discovered him. Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll by..."

June 17, 2016 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Sam Phillips

Record Review

"...Sam Phillips Fan Dance (Nonesuch)..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Shack

The spiritual journey of a tortured soul

"...Directed by: Stuart Hazeldine. Starring: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell, Avraham Aviv..."

March 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twenty Flight Rock

Burton Wilson's photos of old-world Austin and An Album of Texas Songwriters

"...array of folks for her project, getting Sun Records' Sam Phillips to write the foreword and B.B. King to..."

July 20, 2001 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Maintaining the World's Most Expensive Record Collections

Austin's Small Label Scene

"...From the moment Sam Phillips determined that what his bank account could stand..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature

Jesse Sublett's Top Reads of 2015

The Theater of War leads a list that reminds us how ancient lessons about war continue to ring true today

"...8) Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

Day Trips: Sun Studio, Memphis, Tenn.

Birthplace of rock & roll still all right, mama

"...short of a miracle that the original studio survives. Sam Phillips moved his business to fancier digs after he..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"...by nine Austin filmmakers – Noah Bissett, Danielle Goldfarb, Samantha Gore, Rusty Kelley, Faiza Kracheni, Nicole Licea, Sam Phillips,..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.

"...rock & roll returns (which muffled virtually all of Sam Phillips’ six-string cocksmen in the end) by giving up..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Dominion

A partial roll call of people who died in 2003.

"...the Sixties and did little musically afterward. It's the same as being a one-hit wonder...."

Dec. 26, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Long Live the King's Brother

Thankyaverrymuch

"...does more for Elvis, the family's alienation stays the same...."

Nov. 24, 1995 Books Feature

Playback: The Greyhounds Hoof It

Groove-mongering R&B duo the Greyhounds get mule-headed, S.S. Hangover floats Laguna Gloria, and the Austin Music Commission overlooks music hub

"...down Austin's trails and sidewalks alongside Native American spiritualist Samuel Grey Horse, better known as the Sixth Street Cowboy...."

April 13, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"...it was the beat, almost a Cajun two-step. Like Sam Phillips looking for a white boy with a black..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Interview: Peter Guralnick

Conference Panel

"...made it appear, through his stories on Sun Records' Sam Phillips and Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker, for instance,..."

March 15, 2002 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...LaBelle, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Dusty Springfield, Sam & Dave, Donny Hathaway, King Curtis, Dr. John, Willie..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Rules Have Changed

Two veteran music writers conduct an e-mail correspondence in order to look at new ways of reinventing the music industry.

"...of You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke, finds the two writers philosophizing on the continued..."

June 23, 2000 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

Drivin' the Devil Away

Miss Lavelle White

"...Records, and put label bossman Don Robey on the same tastemaking impresario level as Sam Phillips and the Chess..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Ed Ward Unleashes His Second Volume on The History of Rock & Roll

First-generation rock critic visits Teen Pan Alley

"...together profiles of the format's greatest figures – Elvis, Sam Phillips, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Alan Freed,..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Dale Watson

"...extraordinaire and his tight-knit Lone Stars holed up in Sam Phillips Recording and fanned out a deck of Tennessee..."

May 3, 2019 Music Review by Rick Weaver

Greyhounds

"...then, that the album was recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording with acclaimed engineer Matt Ross-Spang. On opener..."

May 25, 2018 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Where Does Margo Price Get Off?

Willie, Billy, Loretta, and Nashville’s crossover queen

"...authentic after years of just going along with the same thing everybody else has been doing...."

Jan. 25, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963

Local music journalism pioneer takes on all of rock & roll

"...with 19-year-old Memphis truck driver Elvis Presley walking into Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service to cut a private, one-off..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...across Dixie with a string of hit singles on Sam Phillips' Sun Records label that were then promoted via..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Don't Touch That Dial

ATX Television Fest is back for round three

"...After two successful summers, the ATX Television Fest appears..."

March 28, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Burn in Hell

String sorcerer went to my college?

"...Austin was 1994, South by Southwest, opening up for Sam Phillips in the street...."

Sept. 10, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Beyond the Sun: Chris Isaak's Epic Moody Theater Taping

Chris Isaak and friends went three hours at the Moody

"...Jerry Lee Lewis, and others recorded or influenced by Sam Phillips at his famed Memphis recording studio. Dedicated to..."

Feb. 15, 2012 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Who's Your Dada?

ASoF's "Friendly But Starving III" Avant-Garde celebration

"...Gordon, Matthew Hardesty, Forester Keeton, Faiza Kracheni, Morgan O'Brien, Sam Phillips, and Bryan Taylor...."

Aug. 25, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Chasing Amy

Painting lamps, chasing elephants, and singing with Alejandro Escovedo: Amy Cook jumps into the pool

"...String Quartet bassist backed by Bobby Daniel and drummer Sammy Kestenholtz with David Boyle on keyboards. Boyle also lent..."

April 9, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Charlie Feathers

Wild Side of Life: Rare and Unissued Recordings, Volume One; Honky Tonk Kind: Rare and Unissued Recordings, Volume Two; Long Time Ago: Rare and Unissued Recordings, Volume Three

"...garnered acclaim for birthing rockabilly out of Memphis, owner Sam Phillips never warmed to one of the genre's pioneering..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Review by Doug Freeman

If You Have Ghosts

The 2007-08 AMA's ghosts – past, present, and future

"...in her recent article on Head, "Had Sun Records' Sam Phillips heard Roy Head before he heard Elvis, Head..."

March 7, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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