When last heard from, Sam Phillips was in the midst of a creative and personal break-up with her husband and producer, T-Bone Burnett. It was a tough period in her life, but she burrowed through.

Sam Phillips would have been 100 years old on Thursday. The rock and roll pioneer -- famed as the founder of Sun Studio, an influential producer and the first to record Elvis Presley -- was born ...

His personal life was as triumphant, messy, and Shakespearian as many of those he recorded, ... The Sam Phillips you bring to life seems like an almost irresistible force of nature.

Sam Phillips, The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, is only the abbreviated title of this fascinating biography.The rest — How One Man Discovered Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny ...

I knew Sam for about 25 years, and saw a great deal of him. It wasn’t that we started out as friends, but I saw him so much. Particularly when I was doing the Elvis biography, I would do these ...

Phillips launched the careers of legends including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. The rock and roll pioneer spoke to Morning Edition in 1993, a decade before his death.