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Willie Dixon certainly wrote some epic blues for Chester Burnett, the Howlin' Wolf, after he moved on up to Chicago; and many of those songs went on to be covered by the greatest rock stars the world has ever known. But when I walked into Sam Phillips' wake, someone (his sons Knox or Jerry, most likely) had this one playing, because their dad recorded it on him, "Moanin' At Midnight": The
Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, Memphis, and therefore a friend to us all. He doesn't have his own entry in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia but he's referred to not only in the entries on Arthur Crudup, Howlin Wolf, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Billy Lee Riley, rock'n'roll and Warren Smith but also in those on the inequality of reward in the blues ; T-Bone...
Country duo Sugarland presents fans with a choice: Buy the regular album, out tomorrow, in the normal price range, and receive 12 mostly excellent tracks, or pay $5-$6 more for the deluxe edition (out last Tuesday) and get five additional,...
tiny photographs of melancholy Though the sound of hope has left me Sam Phillips: Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us i turn my back on my faith Love Spit Love: Am I Wrong In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I...
My seventh ten top ten albums are country, folk or blues that haven’t yet made another category list. Hank Williams, Ramblin’ Man Coming across this LP was a real find. I have a couple of greatest hits collections, which are great, of course, but this album is full of gems, not least the title song. I’ve [...]
From the New York Times’ Freakonomics blog, Steven D. Levitt on the University Of Chicago’s Jeffrey Grogger (above) and his attempts to determine the earning power of persons who “sound black” versus those who do not. Not available for comment : Will Leitch, Sam Phillips, Marshall Mathers. His main finding: blacks who “sound black” earn salaries [...]
On this day in 1954, Elvis Presley recorded his first rock and roll song and his first hit, “That’s All Right, Mama.” Elvis had wanted to be a crooner, and in his first recording sessions he only sang slow ballads. But then, in between takes, Elvis and the other musicians started fooling around and singing [...]
(Click to play) Hard-core fans will cringe when I admit this, but I only discovered Sam Phillips a few months ago when this song called "Baby, I Can't Please You" was playing at my local drugstore every time I went in to buy something. I was instantly mesmerized -- it was as if John Lennon and Paul McCartney had mixed their sperm together and inseminated Rickie Lee Jones and out came this brilliantly...
Music Reviews: Two songs into her quietly engaging set at Largo Thursday night, Sam Phillips had a confession to make -- she and her band didn't believe in rehearsing. Not that she had a problem with that, but "sometimes the horses break out of their corral."
