Name: The Sun Never Sets in Memphis
Channel: Brock Easterbrook, Jackie Cook
Description: Recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis home of the KING! A tribute song written for the famous studio in Memphis and was recorded there in 2009

The Sun Never Sets in Memphis

Brock Easterbrook

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Recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis home of the KING! A tribute song written for the famous studio in Memphis and was recorded there in 2009

pop easy listening country americana contemporary rockabilly alternative country elvis cash 60s music

Brock Easterbrook

Brock Easterbrook began his entertainment career as an actor/stunt performer appearing on TV shows: X-Files, Sliders, Outer Limits, The Sentinel, Poltergeist, S

Song Info

Genre

Country • Americana

Charts

#372 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #1

Author

Brock Easterbrook, Jackie Cook

Rights

BGE Enterprises

Uploaded

February 01, 2011

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:40

Story behind the song

These two songs were written by Brock Easterbrook and the music tracks were composed in Nashville by Jackie Cook. They were both recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis on a restored RCA ribbon microphone like the ones used in the day by Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison etc. and I ACTUALLY stood on the spot that Elvis did all his Sun Records recordings in the 50's (VERY cool experience...Let me tell you!). The recordings both have a distinct sound of the past and the echo and reverb from the original walls of Sun Studios are reminiscent of some of the older recordings that were done there.

The first song "The Sun Never Sets in Memphis" is in tribute to the studio and those that have recorded there. The second song "But it should! " is a fun little song that blends a bit of the old country with the new flavour and was fun to record at this famous spot which was the birth place of Rock n' Roll.

Lyrics

Three men began their stories
We stopped to hear them sing
The short time they were with us
True emotions were their thing
Along-came the up and comers
They couldn’t get it though they tried
Had to work all that much harder
Couldn’t bring back what had died
  
(Oh) the sun    never sets   in Memphis
Not even down Union Avenue
 It just hides   behind the buildings
Until I’ll meet again with you, 

Maybe they can’t really hear us
or understand what they’d done
How the days seemed all that brighter 
After they’d showed us what we’d won
Didn’t forget, only misplaced them
Till we needed them once again
To show us where we came from
Where we got to, how, and when

We never really lost that feeling
but somehow put it all on pause
the music was once much clearer
Yet they were rebels without a cause
The memories that they left us
We’ll keep with us till we die	
The years have come and gone now
We’ll never have to say goodbye

(Oh) the sun    never sets in Memphis
Not even down Union Avenue
It just hides   behind the buildings
Until I’ll meet again with you,

Elvis, Roy and Johnny started
what became music’s very core
We didn’t realize the impact
Till they were gone for-ever-more…
Down on Beale Street there’s a corner
and if you listen through all those blues
Three voices come by much stronger
Now… we’ll give them their dues

...the sun    never sets  in Memphis
Not even down Union Avenue
It just hides   behind the buildings
Until I’ll meet again with you....