The album remained No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart for 14 consecutive weeks ; Memphis Blues fell to No. 2 on October 16, 2010 and then to No. 3 on October 23, 2010.

In December 2010, Memphis Blues was ranked Billboards No. 1 Blues Album of The Year.

Memphis Blues received a nomination award at the 2011 Grammy Awards: Best Traditional Blues Album

After the votes of more than 30, 000 international blues fans and industry professionals, on May 22, 2003 Burke won four Living Blues Awards in a ceremony at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee: Critics ' Award for Most Outstanding Musician ( Vocals ), Readers ' Award for Best Live Performer, Readers ' Award for Most Outstanding Blues Singer, and Album of the Year for Don't Give Up on Me.

On February 12, 2012 The Road from Memphis won at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Of the other Best Soul Gospel Performance nominees for 1990, only Walker eventually earned a Grammy award ( Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album in 1995 for Songs of the Church: Live in Memphis ).

In 2007, soul artist Guy Sebastian recorded The Memphis Album, a tribute album of soul classics, with many of the original Stax Records musicians, including Steve Cropper, Donald " Duck " Dunn, Lester Snell and Steve Potts.

Cropper toured Australia with Guy Sebastian, playing on Sebastian's The Memphis Album tour in March 2008

He co-produced The Memphis Album ( 2007 ), recorded by Australian soul singer Guy Sebastian.

In 2008, Dunn worked with Australian soul singer Guy Sebastian touring The Memphis Album.

* Guy Sebastian -- The Memphis Album

Cropper played guitar on and produced the Sebastian version on The Memphis Album.

Australian soul singer Guy Sebastian recorded a cover version on his covers album The Memphis Album.

* 2000 Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, The Great Gospel Hit Parade: From Memphis To Nashville To Texas, James Blackwood, The Jordanaires and The Light Crust Doughboys

Along with his second LP, Elvis ' Christmas Album, Elvis Is Back !, and From Elvis in Memphis, " Elvis Country " stands as one of Presley's cohesive musical works-the closest he came to concept albums, a mere handful from his large catalogue.

At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

Apries was either taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Memphis before being eventually strangled and buried in his ancestral tomb at Sais, or fled to the Babylonians and was killed mounting an invasion of his native homeland in 567 B. C. E.

An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

Churches Uniting in Christ ( CUIC ) is an ecumenical organization that brings together ten mainline American denominations ( including both predominantly white and predominantly black churches ), and was inaugurated on January 20, 2002 in Memphis, TN on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.

The knife was not received at the West Memphis Police Department until January 8, 1994.

The center of his cult was Memphis.

That same year, Davis was hired as president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee.

announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore and Memphis.

The classic Kansas City-style barbecue was an inner-city phenomenon that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry from the Memphis, Tennessee, area in the early 20th century and blossomed in the 18th and Vine neighborhood.

On 14 October 1986, Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

It was enjoyed mostly by rural blacks, with notable exposure in Memphis, Tennessee due to the all African American programming of WDIA.

* The 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee ( a city named after the ancient Egyptian capital whose name itself was derived from the name of one of its pyramids ).

Built in 1991, it was the home court for the University of Memphis men's basketball program, and the National Basketball Association's Memphis Grizzlies until 2004.

Note that while Nashville received only 26 % of the votes and was significantly behind Memphis in the first round, it won the election by winning the second round.

The decree was issued by a congress of priests who gathered at Memphis.

Tlepolemus, in turn, was replaced as guardian in 201 BC by Aristomenes of Alyzia, who was chief minister at the time of the Memphis decree.

Both the war and the internal revolt were still ongoing when the young Ptolemy V was officially crowned at Memphis at the age of 12 ( seven years after the start of his reign ), and the Memphis decree issued.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

In July 1954, Elvis Presley recorded the regional hit " That's All Right ( Mama )" at Sam Phillips ' Sun Studio in Memphis.

* Will Shade vocalist and multi-instrumentalist member of the Memphis Jug Band who recorded from the 20s until his death in 1966

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Memphis was − 13 ° F (− 25 ° C ) on December 24, 1963, and the highest temperature ever was 108 ° F ( 42 ° C ) on July 13, 1980.

In fact, Memphis is thought to be one of the most mentioned cities ( if not the most ) in recorded music.

Sun Studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, where in 1951 Turner and the Kings of Rhythm recorded Rocket 88, one of the first Rock and roll records.

In 1968, Haley and the Comets recorded a single for the United Artists label, a version of Tom T. Hall's " That's How I Got to Memphis " but no long-term association with the label resulted.

W. C. Handy recorded one of the earliest cover versions of a ODJB song when he released a recording of " Livery Stable Blues " by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis on Columbia Records in 1917, as Columbia A2419 and Columbia 2912, recorded on September 25, 1917.

Will Shade's Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers recorded the great songs that became the basis for the later jug band revival: " Stealin '," " Jug Band Music ," " On the Road Again ," " Whoa, Mule ," " Minglewood Blues ," " Walk Right In ", and many others.

Carr's " The Dark End of the Street " ( written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn ) was recorded in 1967 at two other Memphis studios, Royal Recording and American Sound Studios.

In February and October 1976, the Jungle Room was converted into a recording studio, where Presley recorded the bulk of his final two albums, From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee and Moody Blue ; these were his final known recordings in a studio setting.

Elvis Presley, who recorded his version of Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup's " That's All Right " at Phillips's studio, met that goal, and became highly successful, first in Memphis, then throughout the southern United States.

His son, Thutmose IV received his famed and recorded dream whilst residing as a young prince in Memphis.

* Eric Grider-Songwriter / Singer raised near Rowell, recorded albums in Nashville and Memphis.

Carl Lee Perkins ( April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998 ) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning during 1954.

Several weeks later, on December 19, 1955, Perkins and his band recorded the song during a session at Sun Studio in Memphis.

One year after Rainey's death, blues singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie recorded a tribute.

Paul and Beth Garon's 1992 biography on Memphis Minnie, Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, makes no mention of a marriage to Weldon, but only says that she recorded two sides with him, in November 1935, for Bluebird Records.

Musicians such as Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Nix, Ike Turner, and B. B. King performed on Beale Street and in West Memphis, and recorded some of the classic electric blues, rhythm and blues and rock & roll records for labels such as Sun Records.

According to Dixon & Godrich, Tommy Johnson and Ishman Bracey were recorded by Victor on that company's second field trip to Memphis, in 1928.

Robert Wilkins was first recorded by Victor in Memphis in 1928, and Big Joe Williams and Garfield Akers also in Memphis ( 1929 ) by Brunswick / Vocalion.

McCoy's brother Kansas Joe McCoy was attached to the arguably more notable Memphis Minnie and the seminal Charlie Patton sometimes played and recorded with his wife Bertha Lee.