"They look almost indistinguishable from my recent work, even though they were taken that long ago," Mr. Eggleston, 65, said in a recent telephone interview from his Memphis studio.

Burke later met his next manager and fiancée Tamiko Jones at the Memphis studio.

By 1955, Cash and his bandmates were in the Memphis studio of Sun Records, to audition for owner Sam Phillips.

Pickett's subsequent hits were also recorded elsewhere, including at Fame and American Group Productions, Chips Moman's Memphis studio.

After being locked away in the Memphis studio, when the company embarked on the "Hit the Road, Stax!"

We usually work things out beforehand, not like the Memphis studio where they don't plan things like that, but can end up with a master.

His surviving Memphis recording studio was fielding condolence calls from strangers oceans away and old Sun musicians like the guitarist and bassist Dusty Rhoads.

A hillbilly truck driver named Elvis Presley came to the Memphis studio that Phillips owned, hoping to cut a record for his mother.

In 2010, he co-produced and engineered Cyndi Lauper's Memphis Blues at his Memphis studio, Electraphonic Recording.

Released in 1979, Like Flies on Sherbert was recorded at two Memphis studios, Sam Phillips and Ardent Studios in 1978 and 1979.