Rock City

An important but little-heard branch of the Big Star family tree, Rock City was a short-lived pop/rock band from Memphis, TN, that featured Chris Bell and Jody Stephens shortly before they teamed up with Alex Chilton. Primarily a studio project, Rock City was the brainchild of Bell and fellow Memphis pop obsessive Thomas Dean Eubanks, who wrote the lion's share of the group's material. Since both Bell and the group's keyboard player, Terry Manning, were engineers at Ardent Studios, Rock City was in the enviable position of being able to record an album in a top-flight facility...