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Recording sound pioneer Sam Phillips \\u2014 the father of Sun Records, the man who discovered Howlin\\u2019 Wolf, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash\\u2026, the creator of WHER, The First All Girl Radio Station in the World \\u2014 talks about his journey, his adventures and \\u201cthe acoustics of life.\\u201d With stories from his son Knox Phillips, his wife Becky, his biographer Peter Guralnick, and one of his first artists, Ike Turner.

Hear\\xa0recordings from the archive of interviews we did with Sam beginning in 1998\\u2014personal\\xa0stories told by the man himself and his family and friends.

Interest in Sam Phillips is running high right now \\u2013not that it was ever running low. There\\u2019s a new TV series out\\xa0and there\\u2019s Peter Guralnick\\u2019s epic biography \\u201cSam Phillips The Man Who Invented Rock\\u2019n\\u2019Roll.\\u201d And there\\u2019s a film in the works based on the\\xa0book\\xa0\\u2014\\xa0one of the producers is Mick Jagger\\xa0and Leonardo DiCaprio is playing Sam. Sam has had a monumental impact on the world of music and sound.\\xa0And he\\u2019s had a monumental impact on The Kitchen Sisters.