Stax Museum of American Soul Music

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Lonely Planet review

If the Stax Museum of American Soul Music fails to give visitors goose pimples it's because the original building was demolished long ago, but today's more stable structure echoes the past with a marquee blazing the reassuring words 'Soulsville USA.' Indeed, this venerable spot was soul music's epicenter in the 1960s, when Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs and Wilson Pickett recorded here.

Dive into soul music history with photos, displays of '60s and '70s peacock clothing and, above all, Isaac Hayes' 1972 Superfly Cadillac outfitted with shag fur carpeting and 24-karat-gold exterior trim.