Sam Phillips first opened the doors of his Memphis, Tenn., record studio on Jan. 3, 1950. Known first as the Memphis Record Studio, then later re-opened as Sun Studio, the venue has come to hold a ...

Contributor Jackie Sheckler Finch visits Sun Studio in Memphis, the “Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and discovers the sounds from the past that created the music genre. On a hot summer day in 1953, a ...

Sun Studio is the body around which Memphis music orbits — and where it all began. Jim Stewart at Stax saw Sam Phillips selling records and bought his own recorder. Two of the founders of Hi Records ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn– Trip Advisor announced the winners of its annual 2025 Travelers’ Choice Awards: Best of the Best Things To Do. Sun Studio, the legendary recording studio in Memphis, made Trip Advisor’s ...

In this installment of our series on famous studios, we profile Sun, which was arguably the birthplace of rock and roll and launched the career of Elvis Presley. By Jim Evans. Sun Studio was opened in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– The legendary Sun Studio named as Trip Advisor’s third best tourist attraction in the country today. “We get folks from all over the world, it’s a great story. People get moved by this ...

As part of World Cafe's "Sense of Place" spotlight on Memphis, Tenn., we have an interview with Sam Phillips, founder of the famed Sun Studio. In 2002, a year before the legendary producer died, ...

Nina Kathleen Jones has worked at Sun Studio for most of the past decade, starting as a tour guide and working as its manager for the last five years. She has relayed the history of Sun thousands of ...

ASU’s film school began a partnership putting it on par with the best film schools and Hollywood professionals last month. Film production professor Janaki Cedanna was the mastermind behind the ...