Sam Phillips Sam Phillips Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003) was an American record producer who played an important role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. He launched Presley's career in 1954. Phillips sold Sun in 1969 to Shelby Singleton. He was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. He owned and operated radio stations in Memphis; Florence, Alabama; and Lake
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