Sun Studio Sun Studio Sun Studio is a recording studio opened by rock-and-roll pioneer Sam Phillips at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 3, 1950. It was originally called Memphis Recording Service, sharing the same building with the Sun Records label business. Reputedly the first rock and roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats' "Rocket 88" was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll. Blues and R&B artists like Howlin' Wolf, Junior Parker, Little Milton, B.B. King, James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, and
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