Jerry Lee Lewis, Carla Thomas surprise and thrill as Memphis Music Hall of Fame adds seven new members
Eddie Floyd, Box Tops, 8Ball & MJG, and O’Landa Draper’s Associates among performing inductees
Members of the late O'Landa Draper's Associates gospel choir perform as Draper is inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian).
Jerry Lee Lewis took the stage at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony to play "Great Balls of Fire," which was being honored. Seven new members were inducted in a ceremony at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
Brenda Corbet dances as gospel singers from the orginal O'Landa Draper's Associates perform at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
Rapper 8Ball took the stage and perfomed a few hits with his partner MJG at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony Thursday, Nov. 1. The duo started as "two little kids from the hood," 8Ball said, adding, "We’re so blessed to be in the company we’re in tonight." (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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