Memphis' Hi Records - Stories and Music from Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Don Bryant, Rev. Charles Hodges and Archie "Hubbie" Turner
We’ll go up the Mississippi to another great river city of music: Memphis. Known for rhythm & blues, gospel, soul and roots, rock n roll-and landmark record labels: Sun, Stax and Hi Records. On this visit, we’ll listen to the work of Hi Records producer/arranger/trumpeter Willie Mitchell and talk to members of the Hi Rhythm section: Rev. Charles Hodges and Archie “Hubbie” Turner, plus an archival conversation with the man with the most hits for Hi Records, Al Green. Then more memories of those days with old school singer and prolific songwriter Don Bryant, who got his start with Willie Mitchell and is now back in the studio cutting records with lots of soul.
The historian of the Black Atlantic and Professor of African and African-American Art History Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University died on November 28 at age 88.
You can hear our interview with him here
To read more about his life, click here
Photo: Matthew Sussman/Yale University
