Sam Phillips an impromptu session featuring the four musicians. Phillips challenged the four to achieve gold record sales, offering a free Cadillac to the first, which Carl Perkins won. The contest is commemorated in a song by the Drive-By Truckers. By the mid-1960s, Phillips rarely recorded. He built a satellite studio and opened radio stations, but the studio declined, and he sold Sun Records to Shelby Singleton in 1969. In 1977 Sam's sons, Knox and Jerry, were working with John Prine at the Phillips Recording Studio when Sam Phillips joined them to oversee recordings that were eventually included on the album "Pink
Catamount Recording Studio broke up and the studio was opened to the public. In 1994, Kansas City's "New Times" publication named Tom Tatman and Catamount Recording Studio the "best area producer and studio." Catamount Recording Studio relocated to a larger facility designed by Carl Yanchar in Cedar Falls, Iowa in February 2002. Yanchar has designed recording studios including The Plant, Mad Hatter, Lion Share, CBS Studios and Capitol Recording Studios. Stone Sour was one of Catamount Recording Studio's first clients to record an album at the new studio. That album yielded three hit singles, two Grammy nominations and a Gold Record. Thirty-six nationally