Words by Mike Leonard
The late, great Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
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Call it ‘right place, right time’. More likely a ‘Midas touch’. But Sam Phillips in the 1950s, in his now fabled Sun Studios in Memphis, was more than adept at taking rough diamonds and turning them into the most treasured musical gems. He did it with a young Elvis Presley, likewise the phenomenally-talented Carl Perkins, and the wild, precocious piano-poundin’ Jerry Lee Lewis. Phillips was broad-minded: early on, he’d taken on and championed unsigned bluesmen BB King and Howlin’ Wolf.
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