“Memphis didn’t have a professional football team or a professional basketball team [in the ’70s],” says freelance writer-turned-playwright Tony Jones chomping down on a footlong chili slaw dog from Al’s Tasty Burger on Crump. “What Memphis had was Stax records.”
Jones recalls the days when the Tasty Burger was located on McLemore near Stax records, and when the studio musicians would come into his mother’s beauty shop to bum enough change for one of Al’s slaw-and-baked-bean-slathered franks. These are the kinds of memories Jones shares in his play Ride On: How Stax Records Influenced our Dreams, which previews Sunday at Southwest Tennessee Community College….
