Sam Phillips 19-year-old Ike Turner, who also wrote the song. The recording was released in 1951 by Chess Records, of Chicago. From 1950 to 1954 Phillips recorded music by James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton, Bobby Blue Bland, the Prisonaires and others. Sun Records produced more rock-and-roll records than any other record label of its time during its 16-year run, producing 226 singles. Phillips and Elvis Presley opened a new form of music. Phillips said of Presley: "Elvis cut a ballad, which was just excellent. I could tell you, both Elvis and Roy Orbison could tear a ballad to pieces.
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