The best music labels born in the Twentieth century owe their greatness to one or two men, whether it’s Ahmet Ertegun for the Atlantic, the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess of Chess Records – the home of the blues, Berry Gordy to Tamla Motown, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff for Blue Note, or John Hammond for Columbia, who discovered Billie Holiday, Count Basie or Bob Dylan. But none is more legendary Sam Phillips, dubbed by his biographer Peter Guralnick, “the man who invented rock and roll”. We could not be more right…
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Phillips had begun his career as a technician in different radios of the southern United States, and then had opened in Memphis, a small recording studio. He loved the blues and carved titles fabulous heavyweights such as Howlin’ Wolf, before you sell these records to other companies and then setting up his own label, Sun Records, who …
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