Huey Lewis and the News are in the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis where Bob Dylan, R.E.M., Stevie Ray Vaughan, and numerous others have recorded. The Grammy-winning nine-piece band has recorded eight studio albums over their three decades together. But for the band’s first new record in nine years, an upcoming Stax tribute album that will touch on all things southern soul, the band felt compelled to be as close to the source as possible. Says Lewis of the record: “…we’re trying to do it right, and I think if you’re down here you’re a little bit more careful.”The story of Stax Records is one of a cultural phenomenon that changed the culture of music forever - locally, nationally, and internationally. What began as a tiny record store in an old movie theater at the corner of McLemore Avenue and College Street in Memphis, Tennessee, grew to become one of the most important music recording studios in the world. When the modest Capitol Theater in the heart of Soulsville USA was transformed into Stax Records in 1959, it began launching the careers of unknowns who would become icons, cranking out a massive catalog of smash soul hits by the likes of Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, Luther Ingram, Albert King, the Bar-Kays, Booker T. & the MG's, Johnnie Taylor, Rufus and Carla Thomas, and dozens of other artists whose influence remains vital in the music of today.
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