4 - Sun Records
Prisoners of Rock and Roll
English - November 17, 2020 00:05 - 1 hour - 95 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMusic Commentary Music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If music is a religion, then Sun Studio in Memphis Tennessee is one of it’s holy sites. Inside this former auto glass repair shop, a man named Sam Phillips invented rock and roll, discovered Elvis Presley, and brought us artists like BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
This is where it all started.
Sam opened his studio in 1950 because he wanted you to experience music and not just hear it. He wanted you to feel what he felt growing up around blues and gospel as a sharecropper in Alabama. He wanted you to feel what he felt walking down Beale Street in Memphis.
On today’s episode of Prisoners of Rock and Roll, we’re going to go all the way back to the beginning and take a look at legendary Sun Studios, the artists that came out of it, and the amazing music that gave us good ol’ fashioned, American rock and roll.
Check out the music we played on our playlists:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/702z5Qd8yuCYsfLceDj44Q