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Estelle Axton was the co-founder from the renowned Stax Information — house to acts including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Isaac Hayes — and widely renowned as the leading label in the wealthy background of Memphis spirit. Recognized to the performers who recorded on her behalf as “Female A,” …

Created in 1923 in Pontotoc, MS, Cordell Jackson, aka “Acoustic guitar Granny,” started executing in the 1930s with her father’s music group, the Pontiac Ridge Joggers. She founded her personal Moon Information, the oldest consistently working label in Memphis, in 1956, release a her personal recordings aswell as those of …

Acquiring their cues from 1970s punk, Runaways-influenced hard rock and roll, and North Mississippi blues, the River City Tanlines produced in the ashes of several local rings in Memphis, Tennessee. Vocalist/guitarist Alicja Trout — a recognised songwriter with ties to such Memphis-based groupings as the Shed Sounds, Destruction Device, Black …