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Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. is an American documentary series directed and produced by Jamila Wignot. It corrects the history of Stax Records. [1] The documentary had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2024, where it won the TV Premiere Audience Award. [2] [3] [4] It premiered on May 20, 2024, on HBO. [5]
The HBO documentary "STAX: Soulsville U.S.A." chronicles the rise, fall and legacy of the world-shaking Memphis music company.
The Soulsville Foundation announced in August 2022 that its new President and CEO is now Pat Mitchell Worley, former Stax Music Academy Executive Director and longtime cohost of the internationally syndicated blues radio show, Beale Street Caravan. Jeff Kollath is the Stax Museum's executive director.
The Soulsville Foundation also operates the Stax Music Academy and The Soulsville Charter School, all part of the same campus where the original Stax Records was created. Concord Records purchased the Fantasy Label Group in 2004, and in December 2006 announced the reactivation of the Stax label as a forum for newly recorded music.
Documentary series "STAX: Soulsville U.S.A.," about the iconic Memphis label, is a story of groundbreaking music, hard truths and unhappy endings.
"STAX: Soulsville U.S.A.," an eagerly awaited HBO documentary series, will have a public sneak-preview-style screening in Memphis.
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records in the 1960s, [4] serving as an in-house songwriter with his partner David Porter, as well as a session musician and record producer.
The Soulsville Foundation will begin conducting a national search for Kollath’s successor. This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Stax Museum executive director takes job ...