The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B.B. King — among others — would be turning 100 today. Record producer Sam Phillips is best known as the founder of ...

Elvis Presley’s producer Sam Phillips made a jab at him that he quickly responded to Sam Phillips was a very important figure … by Matthew Trzcinski. Published on March 21, 2021.

Legendary Producer Sam Phillips Dies. Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who decided that a then-unknown Elvis Presley deserved a recording contract when he heard him sing songs for his mother, has ...

Sam Phillips would have been 100 years old on Thursday. The rock and roll pioneer -- famed as the founder of Sun Studio, an influential producer and the first to record Elvis Presley -- was born ...

Elvis Presley's songs were very popular, but his producer Sam Phillips felt he wasn't as talented as this other classic rock star on the same label. Here's what he said.

Johnny Cash had mixed feelings about Sam Phillips, and he was right. The producer gave The Man in Black his big break, yes, but he didn’t necessarily play fair and definitely didn’t let Cash ...

We're honored to have Sam Phillips join us in the studio for songs from her newest, "Don't Do Anything." After her split with husband/producer T Bone Burnett, Sam took on the production chores for ...

Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to play legendary producer Sam Phillips in a biopic. According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will be based on Peter Guralnick's acclaimed 2015 ...

Sun Records founder and producer Sam Phillips put his unique stamp on the seminal careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Roy Orbison, among ...

In his latest book, “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll,” veteran music journalist Peter Guralnick spends a good portion of 600-plus pages backing up the claim made for the ...

Jerry Phillips sits down to talk to Marcus Dowling about his father, Sam Phillips- producer and founder of Sun Records- and what his legacy means to the family. Nashville Tennessean.