The Memphis Music Hall of Fame will officially welcome a new class of inductees on Sept. 25. The latest class is led by Stax Records hitmaker Johnnie Taylor, blues icon Robert Johnson, guitarist, ...

Before this, he had been in gospel outfits The Five Echoes – who he joined in 1951 or 1952 at age 17 – and, from 1957, The Highway QC’s, who Sam Cooke had passed through. In August 1960, he took on ...

Six inductees will join the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. The 2025 class includes Johnnie Taylor, Robert Johnson, Cordell Jackson, Art Gilliam, Denise LaSalle and Wendy Moten. The induction ceremony ...