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Memphis Blues: Sun Rise

Colin Escott, Record Mirror, 13 November 1971

IN 1950 WHEN Sam Phillips gave up his job as band promoter for the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and opened the studio of the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union the Memphis blues scene was in its most interesting phase since the 'twenties.

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