Phillips to be Honored By University of Memphis

New Album by Melissa Etheridge

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Global rockstar and cultural icon Melissa Etheridge presents her new album Rise on Sun Records. The project contains heartfelt and triumphant songs produced by Shooter Jennings and Melissa Etheridge at Sunset Sound in LA. Eleven brand new songs include “Don’t You Want a Woman”, “Bein’ Alive”, “Call You”, and “The Other Side of Blue”, co-written by and featuring Chris Stapleton. As Melissa sagely notes, “sometimes you’re gonna taste the dirt, but then you’re gonna rise.”

October 3, 2008

Phillips to be Honored By University of Memphis

Knox Phillips, the son of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, will receive the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award in the Creative and Performing Arts from the University of Memphis College of Communications and Fine Arts at a luncheon later this month.

Among his professional accomplishments, which include record production and engineering, Phillips serves on the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music Advisory Board at the University of Memphis.

The luncheon, which costs $50 per person or $350 for tables of eight, will be held Oct. 17 at 11:30 a.m. at the Rendezvous restaurant Downtown.

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