HBO’s must-watch docuseries about Stax Records has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

In 1957, two siblings named Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton founded a music business that would become one of the most important institutions to ever emerge from my hometown of Memphis. Using the first two letters of each of their last names, they named it Stax -- a brand that evoked stacks of vinyl, eventually attracted artists like Otis Redding, and would come to be so integral to the city that visitors to this day are greeted with its music and iconography as they walk through the airport here.