In celebration of Sam Phillips’ 103 birthday, Sun Records is honoring its legendary founder by taking prices backward instead of pushing them higher. Starting January 5 and continuing for a week, ...

One hundred three years ago today, one of the most important and influential producers in American music history was born.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. This month marks the centennial of the birth of legendary record producer Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis and produced his first records, ...

Phillips launched the careers of legends including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock and roll pioneer spoke to Morning... Sam Phillips, who introduced the world to Elvis and ...

Nashville's Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum has re-opened after flooding at the adjacent Municipal Auditorium closed the venue for the month of January. The reopening coincides with what would have ...

It’s fitting that Johnny Cash’s life became a major Hollywood movie. The country music superstar found success after enduring tragedy (which became a major inspiration in his life), addiction, and ...

The man who discovered Elvis Presley grew up on a tenant farm outside Florence, Ala., in the depths of the Depression. Working side-by-side with poor blacks and whites in the cottonfields, he learned ...

Sam Phillips would have been 100 years old on Thursday. The rock and roll pioneer -- famed as the founder of Sun Studio, an influential producer and the first to record Elvis Presley -- was born on ...

Two history-making Memphis institutions are coming together as part of a new musical future. On Thursday, Sam Phillips Recording announced it has partnered with the Stax Museum of American Soul Music ...

Sun Records founder Sam Phillips speaks at an event in New York City in August 2002, a year before his death. (Getty Images) The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B ...

Updated January 5, 2023 at 12:06 PM ET The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B.B. King — among others — would be turning 100 today. Record producer Sam Phillips is ...