Sam Phillips Fame, and in 2012 he was inducted into the inaugural class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. Phillips died of respiratory failure at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, on July 30, 2003, only one day before the original Sun Studio was designated a National Historic Landmark, and just over a month before the death of former Sun Records recording star Johnny Cash, on September 12, 2003. Phillips is interred in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. Sam Phillips Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American record producer who played an important role in
Sam Phillips (musician) few days earlier on November 21, Phillips released online an eight-track downloadable EP "Human Contact is Never Easy", including four new tracks ahead of the album "World on Sticks", to be released September 2018. Ahead of the release of "World on Sticks", her first live concert film and album, "Sam Phillips: Live @ Largo at The Coronet", was made available digitally through her website. Phillips married producer and musician T Bone Burnett in 1989, and together they have one daughter, Simone, born in 1997. Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004, and both have since remarried. Phillips has received two Grammy