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
The Lodge Recording Studio separate musical careers. In 1992 The Lodge re-opened in Northampton, where it currently operates 2 studios. The larger main studio still has the vintage 1976 Cadac analogue desk, which was originally installed in Battery Studios in London. The Second studio is equipped with a Yamaha digital desk. The Lodge Recording Studio The Lodge Recording Studio is a recording studio in Northampton, England. It is co-owned by Robert John Godfrey and Max Read of The Enid. The studio was first established in 1978 by Robert John Godfrey and Stephen Stewart in Hertford and then moved to larger premises in Claret Hall