Memphis

First published - on August 26, 2020, up-dated November 30, 2024Family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples was born near Winona in Minnesota. In the early 1920s his family moved...

First published on August 23, 2020 William Bell was born William Yarbrough in 1939 in Memphis. Judy Clay was born Judith Grace Guions in St. Pauls, North Carolina,...

First published on August 21, 2020 Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, but grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas. Like most black kids of his generation, he...

Jerry Wexler is remembered for many things within the music industry, but perhaps the most significant of all is his invention in 1949 of the term Rhythm and...

First published 12 August 2020 Strangely, one of the best Soul albums ever was released in the UK in 1968. It was manufactured by Polydor Records and pressed...

First published 16 July 2020 Rufus Thomas was born in Mississippi in 1917 but his family moved to Memphis around 1920. As a teenager still at school, Rufus was...

First published 19 July 2020 David Porter was born in 1941 in Memphis. While he was still a student at high school, Porter began to develop an interest...

First published - 14 July 2020 Mr Prater and Mr Moore met in 1961 in Florida. They were both singers who liked gospel and who also used to...