Terry Manning is best known as a producer and master of the mixing board, having been the first house engineer for...

More than 10 years ago, I was tasked with scoring a documentary about the political machine of Boss E.H. Crump, and,...

Cover artwork by Rui Ricardo The times I was lucky enough to work with Roland Janes at Sam Phillips Recording Service...

Stephen Chopek is a drummer’s drummer who has made a name as a Memphis sideman over recent years, but that’s not the...

Years ago, the drummer in a band I used to play in brought over his homemade “Dreamachine,” a low-budget stroboscopic...

Most Memphians know James Godwin by his first name, as in James & the Ultrasounds. (Full disclosure: I was an...

Dan Penn knows a bit about suffering and joy. Since he began writing songs and producing at Fame Studios in Florence,...

Richard Wilson grew up in the U.K. and began writing songs in the new wave era, but you wouldn’t guess it from the...

Whether you knew it or not, Luke White has probably been a fixture in some of your favorite Memphis bands. He’s...

Don’t sleep on the Streets! Good advice in any context, but in this case it means keep Dirty Streets, the band, on...