![]() Someone tipped him to a blues singer who did an early morning radio broadcast on Saturdays under the name Howlin’ Wolf, and with Wolf, Phillips heard the sound that was in his brain, which is best exemplified by one of the rawest and most explosive blues records ever made, Wolf’s “Moanin’ At Midnight.” Recording Wolf, Phillips discovered the method he would use to record musicians from then on which was trying to make them feel as comfortable in the studio was possible so they’d feel free enough to create. Since he was a kid, Phillips heard a sound in his mind, one he couldn’t articulate. Working out of a small storefront, he recorded anything he could from weddings to business meetings and whatever musicians would come around. After a couple of years in Memphis he decided to go into business for himself, opening the Memphis Recording Service with Marion Keisker, a radio engineer and programmer as his assistant. ![]() Along the way he married, and also had a couple of breakdowns checking himself into institutions for electroshock therapy, something he’d read about. He started working in radio both as an announcer and an engineer, but he was always tinkering with the sound of the stations he worked for trying to make them better and he moved from small towns to Nashville and finally in Memphis. ![]()
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