Sid Selvidge

Three key figures in Memphis music will get their close-up this week as local nonprofit film production organization True Story Pictures releases The Music Interviews on three DVDs. Soprano and television entertainer Marguerite Piazza, folk musician Sid Selvidge, and late producer/musician Jim Dickinson are the subjects of the life-story DVDs, which will be celebrated with a public release party Thursday, December 10th, at the Memphis College of Art. "Initially, I didn't think about doing music because that turf, so to speak, had already been claimed," says Joann Self, the founder and executive director of True Story Pictures, citing a "Living Histories" project of the Recording Academy, which had taped interviews with such local music luminaries as Sam Phillips, Rufus Thomas, and Isaac Hayes. Read More

Three key figures in Memphis music will get their close-up this week as local nonprofit film production organization True Story Pictures releases The Music Interviews on three DVDs. Soprano and television entertainer Marguerite Piazza, folk musician Sid Selvidge, and late producer/musician Jim Dickinson are the subjects of the life-story DVDs, which will be celebrated with a public release party Thursday, December 10th, at the Memphis College of Art. "Initially, I didn't think about doing music because that turf, so to speak, had already been claimed," says Joann Self, the founder and executive director of True Story Pictures, citing a "Living Histories" project of the Recording Academy, which had taped interviews with such local music luminaries as Sam Phillips, Rufus Thomas, and Isaac Hayes. Read More