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Byline: Danny Freedman and Houston Cofield The day's last batch of tourists filed out of an exhibition space and entered a room overflowing with the sound of Johnny Cash's 'Cry! [...]

Revisit the magical evening in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash found themselves jamming at the Sun Records studio in 'One Night in Memphis' [...]

Byline: William Grimes With his pounding piano, his impassioned vocals and his incendiary performing style, Mr. Lewis lived up to his nickname, the Killer. Jerry Lee Lewis, the hard-driving rockabilly [...]

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- 'Where Rock and Roll Was Born!' - The independent publishing powerhouse Primary Wave Music is celebrating the 70th Anniversary of [...]

SONNY BURGESS, who has died aged 88, was a 1950s rockabilly singer and guitarist who recorded with Sun, the Memphis studio where Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Johnny [...]

Aug. 28--The Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick has announced its lineup for the summer of 2018. Kicking off the 60th anniversary season is 'Million Dollar Quartet,' based on the [...]

Springfield: Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: One Night in Memphis Name: One Night in Memphis Date: June 17, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 [...]

Springfield: McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: One Night in Memphis Name: One Night in Memphis Date: June 17, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 [...]

Springfield: Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: One Night in Memphis Name: One Night in Memphis Date: June 17, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 [...]

Springfield: McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: One Night in Memphis Name: One Night in Memphis Date: June 17, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 [...]

Springfield: Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce has issued the following news release: One Night in Memphis Name: One Night in Memphis Date: June 17, 2017 Time: 8:00 PM - 11:00 [...]

Byline: Kelsey Nicholson Recently, CMT aired a new series called 'Sun Records,' directed by Roland Joffé. The first episode premiered on Thursday Feb. 23. So far, five episodes have aired [...]

Byline: Tshepo Mokoena Jack White may be taking a break from live performance, but his obsession with the process of recording music is as healthy as ever. The musician and [...]

Byline: Charlie Patton April 24--In Dec. 4, 1956, what came to be called the Million Dollar Quartet spent a few hours in the recording studios of Sun Records in Memphis, [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Goldsborough Jan. 23--When it comes to the coincidental life of W.S. Holland, he calls it all a fluke. Why was he there the day of the historic Million [...]

Byline: WILLIAM YARDLEY Soon after the Bihari brothers started leasing jukeboxes in black neighborhoods of Los Angeles in the early 1940s, they realized they had a problem. While their business [...]

Byline: Anita Singh and Agency The first song Elvis Presley ever recorded, a version of the ballad My Happiness, has sold at auction for almost £200,000. Presley was 18 years [...]

Byline: JONATHAN LIEWs At the Library of Congress in Washington DC, there is something called the National Recording Registry. It is a collection of the most defining pieces of audio [...]

Byline: ROHAN PRESTON; STAFF WRITER Few jukebox musicals succeed like 'Million Dollar Quartet,' which is lighting up the State Theatre in Minneapolis with some classic rock 'n' roll. A show [...]

Byline: Tim Jonze Your latest album, Beyond the Sun, has you covering the greats who recorded at Sun Records studio (1). What made you want to go there? When I [...]

Byline: Caroline Sullivan Every musician has an album they've 'always wanted to make', and this is Chris Isaak's: a 19-track behemoth of (mainly) Sun Records covers, executed so faithfully that [...]

Byline: Bernadette McNulty Chris Isaak is sitting inches from me on a sofa in a softly lit American hotel room, serenading me with a heartbroken love song. By rights, I [...]

Byline: Brett Johnson Nov. 18--Chris Isaak's brooding falsetto can at times approach that of Roy Orbison, the longtime owner of the word. Isaak's voice also can slide into Elvis Presley [...]

Byline: Doug Fraser June 18--HYANNIS -- Chris Isaak can make his voice break, soar and swoon like the best of the crooners of the 1950s and '60s. Growing up in [...]

Byline: Jon Savage In February 1955, the music that would become known as rock'n'roll was still latent. Bill Haley and the Comets were in the pop top 20 with Dim, [...]

Byline: Caroline Sullivan The Durham siblings are digital-age refuseniks so committed to rockabilly, jump-blues and ska that they record on vintage equipment in a London home studio modelled on the [...]

Byline: ROBERT FELDBERG, STAFF WRITER 'Baby It's You!' -- which doesn't earn that exclamation point -- is a shapeless, occasionally entertaining jukebox musical devoted to the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues songs [...]

Byline: JOHN AIZLEWOOD THE JIM JONES REVUE Koko, NW1 SOME bands look only to the future, some look back occasionally, and then there is The Jim Jones Revue, a band [...]

Byline: Colin Escott In January 1950, when Sam Phillips opened his tiny recording studio on Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee he had no idea who would walk through the door, [...]

Byline: HENRY HITCHINGS MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Noël Coward, WC2 THE success of Jersey Boys shows there's an appetite for musicals that are part jukebox extravaganza, part documentary -- full of [...]