| Soul
Photos in Memphis |
 The
Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis will host a new exhibition,
"Still Life in Soul" opening November 6, 2009. The exhibit
explores the current life, activity, and resurgence in popularity
of soul music through portrait, performance, and documentary photography
made since 2005 by music photographer Jacob Blickenstaff.
Artists represented in the forty photos in the exhibit include Bettye
LaVette, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Lee Fields & the Expressions,
Barbara Lynn, Maxine Brown, Roscoe Robinson, Harvey Scales, Candi
Staton, Sir Lattimore Brown, Otis Clay, William Bell, Eddie Floyd,
Skip Pitts, Ben Cauley, Mighty Hannibal, John Gary Williams (of the
Mad Lads), and many others.
The work chronicles performances at The Ponderosa Stomp, Lincoln Center,
Dig Deeper, and the Brooklyn Soul Festival, as well as recording sessions
at Daptone Studios. Many performances were backed by contemporary
soul bands the Bo-Keys, The Sweet Divines, and Eli Reed and the True
Loves.
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