HBO’s recent four-part docuseries digs deep into the record label behind the Memphis sound
To misquote Rushmore’s Max Fischer : Music docs are a very tricky species. The stories about the bands, record labels, places, and scenes that matter—historically, commercially, culturally, or, rarer still, artistically—are hard to tell on screen, with some feeling slighter than they should , others a bit of a stretch , others far too talking-heads-y , and the scarce few that nail it, giving off the same kinetic energy as its subject’s music .
To support the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, something label artists and employees vocally approved, Martin Luther King Jr. headed to town in 1968, greeted by Stax folks and told to stay at the Lorraine Motel, which was the record company’s “home away from home,” according to Dave Prater, the one place his interracial house band would hang outside the studio. It ended up being the very site where King himself was assassinated.
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