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Wednesday
Feb292012

'Le Blues de Memphis'

This wonderful 1969 French documentary captures some of the long-lost magic at Stax and FAME studios, home of some of the greatest music ever recorded. 

The video captures Southern soul at its best, with Brook Benton letting it all out while recording at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. The action then shifts to Graceland and Stax Studios in Memphis, where Isaac Hayes is captured rehearsing horn parts at Stax Studios and Booker T & The MG's perform the classic instrumental "Time is Tight" (which I first heard covered by The Clash).

Cool, magical stuff.