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Memphis, Tennessee 1972:

Seated behind a primitive mixing board in a tiny Quonset hut at 64 Flicker Street, just a stones throw from the Illinois Central railroad tracks, Pastor Juan D. Shipp crackles over the AM airwaves with an electrifying array of the latest and greatest in gospel quartet sounds. With an audience that spans the width and breadth of the Bluff City, from truck cabs to taxi stands, from Mid-Town to Orange Mound, from the Peabody Hotel to Paynes Barbecue, if youre a fan of Memphiss thriving gospel scene, youre locked into Juan D at K-WAM, the Mighty 990, the very station that twenty years earlier, during its first incarnation as KWEM across the river in West Memphis, Arkansas had first brought blues wizard Howlin Wolf to the ears of recording engineer Sam Phillips. Now, two decades later, having revolutionized the music world with Sun Records and its holy trinity of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, the Wolf still remained Phillips favorite. This is where the soul of man never dies, hed memorably declared of the six-foot-six gravel-voiced force of nature, a description that could just as easily be applied to so many of the artists whose records Shipp is now spinning over the air.