Stax/Volt

Stax/Volt Founded in Memphis in 1958 as Satellite Records by country fiddler Jim Stewart, Stax Records was initially conceived as a pop and country label. It was only after renting an abandoned movie theatre in 1960 in a neighborhood whose demographic was rapidly changing from white to black that Stewart, now in partnership with his sister, Estelle Axton, began to regularly record black artists. The first black artist to record at the new location was Memphis disc jockey and former Sun…