January 15, 2013 | 1:02 PM | By John Vettese
Memphis Sense of Place: Take a video tour of Sun Studio
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All week on World Cafe with David Dye, the Sense of Place series is exploring the city of Memphis and its musical heritage. Today, we take a video tour of historic Sun Studio – where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and more recorded their hit singles. You can listen to the Sense of Place series on WXPN at 2 p.m. Monday through Friday all this week, or at 7 p.m. on XPN2: Singer-Songwriter Radio.
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