Sponsored by Mississippi Arts Commission<\/strong> and Visit Mississippi <\/strong>the event will take place on Monday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Sanders Soundstage<\/strong>. The conversation will be moderated by past Recording Academy\u00ae <\/strong>Memphis Chapter Executive Director, Jon Hornyak<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are honored to welcome the legendary David Porter back to Grammy Museum Mississippi for an unforgettable evening,\u201d said Emily Havens,<\/strong> Executive Director of Grammy Museum Mississippi. \u201cHis extraordinary legacy from shaping the sound of Stax Records<\/strong> to writing timeless hits for some of music\u2019s most celebrated artists has left an indelible mark on American music. We\u2019re especially excited for him to share stories from his remarkable career, including insights from his book The Soul Man, and to give our audience a deeper look into the life and work behind the music.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tickets to An Evening With David Porter are free for Grammy Museum Mississippi members and $15 for nonmembers. Tickets are currently on sale at grammymuseumms.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ABOUT DAVID PORTER <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A native of Memphis, Tenn., David Porter was the first staff songwriter at Stax Records. In his A&R capacity for the label, Porter signed acts including The Emotions, Homer Banks and The Soul Children, and he was also responsible for bringing in Isaac Hayes as a songwriting partner. As house songwriters for Stax, Porter and Hayes wrote some of Sam & Dave\u2019s biggest hits, including \u201cSoul Man,\u201d which won the Grammy\u00ae for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording in 1968, \u201cI Thank You,\u201d \u201cWhen Something Is Wrong With My Baby,\u201d and \u201cHold On, I\u2019m Comin\u2019.\u201d The pair also penned songs for Carla Thomas (\u201cB-A-B-Y\u201d) and Johnnie Taylor (\u201cI Got to Love Somebody\u2019s Baby\u201d and \u201cI Had a Dream\u201d). Porter also recorded his own music for Stax, with the 1965 single \u201cCan\u2019t You See When I Want To,\u201d which became a Top 30 R&B hit. In 2005, Porter was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/strong>. In 2015, Rolling Stone<\/strong> listed him among the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Porter has more than 1,700 songwriter and composer credits for artists such as James Brown, Patsy Cline, Celine Dion, Drake, Eminem, Eurythmics, Aretha Franklin, Tom Jones, Bonnie Raitt, Otis Redding, Wu-Tang Clan, and ZZ Top. His songs have also been sampled in Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cDreamlover,\u201d Will Smith\u2019s \u201cGettin\u2019 Jiggy Wit It\u201d and The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s \u201cWho Shot Ya?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porter is also the founder of Consortium MMT<\/strong>, a nonprofit organization that seeks to develop the music industry in Memphis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n About GRAMMY Museum Mississippi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Developed by the Cleveland Music Foundation<\/strong>\u2014a nonprofit organization founded in 2011\u2014the 28,000-squarefoot Grammy Museum Mississippi<\/strong> is housed near the campus of Delta State University, home of the Delta Music Institute’s Entertainment Industry Studies<\/strong> program, which features the most unique audio recording facilities in the South. Affiliated with the Grammy Museum Foundation™<\/strong>, Grammy Museum Mississippi is dedicated to exploring the past, present, and future of music, and the cultural context from which it emerges, while casting a focused spotlight on the deep musical roots of Mississippi. The Museum features a dynamic combination of public events, educational programming, engaging multimedia presentations, and interactive permanent and traveling exhibits, including a Mississippi-centric area that introduces visitors to the impact of Mississippi’s songwriters, producers, and musicians on the traditional and modern music landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information, visit grammymuseumms.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GRAMMY\u00ae-nominated songwriter and author to visit the museum as part of his book tour, sponsored by the Mississippi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":164599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3220,7887,19,17331],"tags":[8902,34253,4596,35479,8903,9030,35480,8580,34250,2662,11768,4631,9809,8107,10961,34248,18559],"class_list":["post-164598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta","category-local-music","category-local-news","category-museums","tag-cleveland-music-foundation","tag-consortium-mmt","tag-david-porter","tag-delta-music-institutes-entertainment-industry-studies","tag-emily-havens","tag-grammy","tag-grammy-museum-foundation","tag-grammy-museum-mississippi","tag-jon-hornyak","tag-mississippi-arts-commission","tag-recording-academy","tag-rolling-stone","tag-sanders-soundstage","tag-songwriters-hall-of-fame","tag-stax-records","tag-the-soul-man","tag-visit-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Davis_Porter_graphic_copy.jpg?fit=1080%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164603,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164598\/revisions\/164603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\")
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