This exhibit highlights an example of where soul music originated. This church was built around 1906 in Duncan, Mississippi by landowners, sharecroppers and Black slaves. Duncan is located about 100 miles south of Memphis in the Mississippi Delta near Highway 61. The church had no running water or toilets. Electricity replaced coal oil lamps here in the 1950's.
This museum is located at the original site of Stax Records. Stax Records started as a struggling back-street garage operation in 1957 and became a multi-million dollar organization. Some of the artists Stax recorded are: Otis Redding, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Albert King, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, Booker T. & the MGs and the Bar-Kays.
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