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STAX NEWS
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STAX MUSEUM NEWS
(August 9th, 2001)

Thanks to Soulsville USA, you can now watch regularly the works in progress at 926 E. McLemore Ave. for the future STAX Museum.

STAX IS COMING BACK
(July 23rd, 2001)

Click on the image above to read the interview and photos in the July issue of the Memphis Downtowner magazine, about the future Stax Museum. (Magazine sent by Joe Pusateri and reproduced by permission).

JUDY CLAY DIED
(July 22nd, 2001)

Another very sad news: Judy Guion, a.k.a. Judy Clay, famous for her Stax recordings and duets with William Bell (Private Number) and Billy Vera (Storybook Children, on Atlantic Records) has just died. The funeral service will take place on Thursday, July 26 at 1:00pm at The Whomsoever Will Church in Eastover, North Carolina. She is survived by one sister (Sylvia Shemwell of The Sweet Inspirations), one brother, two children and four grandchildren (news from David Cole). More about this great underrated singer soon on the Stax Site.

THE STAX MUSEUM ON THE WAY
(July 22nd, 2001)

Thanks to Joe Pusateri, our special correspondant in Memphis, find the first photos of the Stax Museum works in progress on the Stax Today page 4. Above, a drawing of the project with the rebuilt Stax marquee on the right.

THE BOLOGNA SOUL FESTIVAL 2001
(July 5th, 2001)

Paul Brown (Ann Peebles' manager) was kind enough to send me two photos from the very recent 2001 Bologna Soul Festival. You can see them on the Stax Today page 4. Thanks a lot, Paul.

SO LONG BLUES
(June 22nd, 2001)

John Lee Hooker died on June 20th, 2001 at 83 years. His one and only Stax LP, produced by Henry Stone and recorded in Florida was just a distribution deal. R.I.P.

ISAAC HAYES CONCERT IN MEMPHIS
(June 18th, 2001)

Isaac Hayes made a show in Memphis last friday, june 15th at the Garden. Of course, our man in Memphis, Joe Pusateri, was there. See some of his photos on STAX TODAY page 4.

THE STAX MUSEUM PROJECT
(June 14th, 2001)

Thanks to Deanie Parker and Sherman Willmott at Soulsville, USA, a map of the future Stax Museum, to open in 2002. In the center, the most exciting part: the studio A, with its slanted floor and the control room in the upper left corner, with many original Stax equipment, including the piano. In the middle lower part, at the right of the Stax marquee, the Satellite Record Shop.

REMINISCING JOHNNIE TAYLOR
(June 7th, 2001)

Johnnie Taylor died just a little more than one year ago, on may 31st, 2000. These photos were taken by french writer-discographer Pierre Daguerre during his one and only european tour, for a single concert which took place in Paris in July 1979.

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