What I wanted to see was Sun Records. Another label Stax handled rhythm and blues. It featured notables such as B.B. King. Most of them like Elvis took off for bigger labels like RCA when they had enough of Sam. The Sun studio was and is a small, wedge-shaped building on Union Avenue.
People can tour the studio free, if there is someone around to lead.
You can get tee shirts, caps, paperweights, pens, pencils, 35mm slides, glossy photos, little model Cadillacs, etc. Not everyone signed by Sun turned out famous, but a surprising number did. I thought about what it all might mean. Carl Perkins wore his blue suede shoes, Elvis Presley shouted at his hound dog, and Johnny Cash walked the line with them from Sun through the worst kind of narcotic and alcoholic hells to enduring fame and adoration. The four young men in the accompanying photograph could never have predicted their futures certainly not the dark side of what was to come.