Willie "Too Big" Hall... THIS week on VOICE of MEMPHIS MUSIC

Willie "Too Big" Hall

Willie "Too Big" Hall was born August 8, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee. He began his career as a drummer in 1965, while still in high school. He played with the Bar-Kays band and Isaac Hayes's band The Movement. In the seventies, as part of the Stax-Volt Recording Section Team from 1968–77, Hall backed dozens of major Stax artists on recordings, including such artists as The Emotions, Little Milton, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, The Staple Singers, Albert King and Isaac Hayes. Hall produced Hayes' last Stax album, and did percussion on Hayes' albumsHot Buttered Soul and The Isaac Hayes Movement, as well as his Theme from Shaft.

Hall also recorded the album Universal Language with Booker T. & the MGs, and later joined guitarist Steve "The Colonel" Cropper and bass player Donald "Duck" Dunn as a member of The Blues Brothers, which led to his appearance in the hit movie The Blues Brothers and its sequel. He appeared as himself in the 2008 movie Soul Men.

Hall has toured the world and recorded with a variety of artists, including The Blues Brothers, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, KC and the Sunshine Band, Bonnie Raitt, Earl Scruggs, Charlie Daniels Band, Todd Rundgren and Roger McGuinn, among others. He is currently a member of The Bo-Keys, a band of highly respected Memphis musicians, including Isaac Hayes's wah-wah guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts. He is the father of rapper Gangsta Pat.^[1]

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This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 28th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 30th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 31st- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton,Jeffery Haas'TD' and you'll love hearing stories from Willie and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis Music & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

All Memphis Music would like to thank the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau for their support of 

The Voice of Memphis Music and All Memphis Music

Jeffery Haas

Barry Shankman

K.Paul Compton

THIS WEEK JOHN FRY owner ARDENT STUDIOS

THIS WEEK JOHN FRY 

This week we sit down with JOHN FRY, Owner of Ardent Studios.. hear what he has to say about the direction of Memphis how he got started and where he thinks the INDUSTRY is headed... I am sure you will enjoy the program *)o(*b

This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 21st- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 23rd- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 24th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton,Jeffery Haas'TD' and you'll love hearing stories from JOHN and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis Music & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

All Memphis Music would like to thank the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau for their support of 

The Voice of Memphis Music and All Memphis Music

Barry Shankman

K.Paul Compton

                                                                                                     

Jeffery Haas

Wayne Jackson Founding Member MEMPHIS HORNS

Wayne recorded a hit song his first day in the studio. He's played on 52 Number One records and 83 Gold and Platinum records. He's toured the world and shared the stage with many of the most influential artists in modern music. 

If there's such a thing as destiny, then it's safe to say Wayne Jackson has a purpose on this earth. From the time he was

 six telling his grandmother he would one day be on the radio to missing rides on Otis Redding's airplane crash and Stevie Ray's helicopter crash, life's been dealing him a deck of cards that just won't stop. 

Born in Memphis and raised across the river in the sleepy, cotton town of West Memphis, Arkansas, Wayne's love of music began with a guitar. Then one night his mother came home with a trumpet for her eleven-year-old son. "I opened up the case, and it smelled like oil and brass. I loved that, so I put it together, blew, and out came a pretty noise. My first taste of Sweet Medicine." 

The rest is music history. 

Wayne played in the junior high and senior high bands taking all honors at the local and state level. 

Soon he was sneaking out the back window to go play at the Jungle Inn on Highway Seventy. And then it happened. In the 12th grade, he found himself playing with a group called The Mar-Keys. They had a number one instrumental smash called, "Last Night." It was 1961. 

What followed was a magical ride making music history with Otis, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd, Albert King and the rest of the Stax Recordsroster. "Back then, we had to do those songs from front to back with no mistakes and with good feelings. That's what made musicians out of us. That's what trained us. Now musicians all around the world judge their performances against those records with us on them, and that's why we're heroes." 

In 1969, Wayne and sax man, Andrew Love, incorporated asThe Memphis Horns and began offering their signature 

sound to artists around the world. Wayne found himself in the studio with a host of stars such as Elvis, Neil Diamond, B.J. Thomas, James Taylor, Al Green, Aretha Franklin and out on the road touring with Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart and The Doobie Brothers. 

After moving to Nashville in the late Seventies, Wayne decided to trade in life on rock and roll jetliners for life on a billybus. He spent three years traveling the roads with country music legend,Marty Robbins, during which time he became the only horn player ever to perform on the Grand Ole Opry. 

Then in the mid-Eighties Peter Gabriel called, and Wayne's work on "Sledgehammer" catapulted him back on top of rock and roll. From that day through this day, Wayne has been in the studio with Neil Young, U2, Billy Joel, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Jack White, Lenny Kravitz, Collective Soul,just to name a few, and on the road with Stephen Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Joe Cocker, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray, Luther Allison. 

To sum it all up, Wayne says, "My life, so far, has been filled withSweet Medicine and is a bridge spanning five generations of American music." 

Wayne’s two  books about his life and adventures entitled, In My Wildest Dreams - Take 1 and In My Wildest Dreams - Take 2are now available in paperback on Amazon. He also writes songs for Sweet Medicine Music, the publishing company he formed with his wife, Amy.

  His song, Christmas Can't Be Very Far Away, was featured on Amy Grant's 1999 album, A Christmas To Remember. 

Wayne, Amy and pup, Gracie, moved back home to Memphis in 2010 after fourteen years in Nashville and are happy to be rolling on the River once again. 

Wayne and his partner, Andrew, just received the highest honor in the music industry this February...a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 14th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 16th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 17th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton and you'll love hearing stories from Wayne and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis Music & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

All Memphis Music would like to thank the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau for their support of 

The Voice of Memphis Music and All Memphis Music

THIS WEEK VOICE of MEMPHIS MUSIC

This week 'The Voice of Memphis' interviews Bobby Manuel, a legend in the Memphis Music scene.


Bobby Manuel joined Stax Records in the late 1960s and stayed through the label’s bitter end in 1975, after which he and Stax founder Jim Stewart opened Daily Planet studio and began doing independent productions together. At Stax, Manuel was a jack-of-all-trades, working as an engineer, mixer, songwriter, producer, and tour bandleader. But first and foremost, Bobby was and is a guitarist. 


He has recorded with Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Al Green, Albert King, Little Milton, Billy Eckstine, Rufus Thomas, The MGs, Luther Ingram, The Bar-Kays, Leon Russell, John Mayall, Anne Peebles, Mavis Staples, and Eddie Floyd. 


After the demise of Stax Records, Manuel and Stax founder Jim Stewart operated a studio and production company. Shirley Brown was among their most notable signings. He later ran his own label, HighStacks (named to recall the glory of former Memphis R&B labels, Hi Records and Stax).

In 2004, Manuel organized and led a group of Memphis All-Stars with guest appearances by Marvell Thomas and Steve Cropper to celebrate the opening of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, backing legends such as Isaac Hayes, Mavis Staples, Eddie Floyd,William Bell, Solomon Burke, and Al Green who performed in honor of the label.

This week's interview will air at the following times on www.AllMemphisMusic.com

MONDAY  May 7th- 12:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

WEDNESDAY May 9th- 5:00 PM MEMPHIS Time CST

THURSDAY  May 10th- 8:00 PM MEMPHIS  Time CST

The interview was conducted by Barry L. Shankman and K. Paul Compton and you'll love hearing stories from Bobby and his fascinating life that helped shape the Memphis Sound. The Voice of Memphis & All Memphis Music are preserving the artists, producers, the musicians and all those who helped create 'The Memphis Sound'

All Memphis Music would like to thank the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau for their support of 

The Voice of Memphis and All Memphis Music

This Week "Wayne Jackson" from the world famous MEMPHIS HORNS

That's right Wayne Jackson one of the founders of the world famous Memphis Horns on all this week
great stories of sessions and the long strange trip of MEMPHIS MUSIC STAX and the sessions after the Stax era as well as the GRAMMY **NARAS** Lifetime achievement award congratulations
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We at Voice of Memphis Music.. PAUL , JEFFERY & BARRY are busy interviewing .. just recently we have added Dean Deyo (President of the Memphis Music Foundation)www.memphismeansmusic.com & Bob Frank (Singer Songwriter) YOU really need to hear Bob's music go to his web site www.bobfranksongs.com we are sure you are going to want to tune in an listen to all our guest as well as BOB ... hope that you are enjoying the show as much as we are enjoying making it for you...............*)o(* VoMM   www.voiceofmemphismusic.com
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This is it today is the day at 12:00pm Memphis Time we start with JUD PHILLIPS at this time we want to thank everyone who spent their time effort, money to get this project up and running.. We at times had to reinvent the wheel and at others just try it and pray well after all of this we are finally at that day.. THANK YOU EVERYBODY for your help and support.. we will take it from here.. OK GUYS LISTEN and enjoy we are doing our part PLEASE DO YOURS *)o(* VoMM
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