Music in real places

Stax’s McLemore Avenue recording site

926 East McLemore Avenue, Memphis; original Stax property, present museum is a later building

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Stax’s McLemore Avenue recording site — Position not yet established

Music happened here

The Dock of the Bay: a bay-side idea becomes a Memphis record

Redding records Dock of the Bay at Stax

1967 recording

Otis Redding recorded Dock of the Bay at Stax in Memphis in 1967. The McLemore Avenue studio building was later demolished; the Stax Museum occupies the original site, not the surviving original recording building.

1957–1968 — Stax institutional history
Stax Museum electronic press kit — original recording site

Reading the place today

This place remains listed without a map pin.

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