Here's this week's Memphis Mystery Train set list, complete with a special bonus live guest. My cute friend Chris Milam stopped by the studio this morning to play some songs from his new  record, Young Avenue.

A lot of amazing things have happened in Memphis in 2012, but we're not keeping it all for ourselves. Here are four international firsts for Memphis that happened (or are going to happen) this year:

1. Million Dollar Quartet in Tokyo:  The Broadway musical about the one magical night when Elvis, Carl Parkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis had an impromtu jam session at Sun Studio played in Japan from Sept. 5 - 17th, 2012.

Today in Memphis, we congratulate the Freedom Award winners, find out more about the plans for the Do Sushi space and mourn the loss of Memphis' only children's bookstore. Also, Steve Cohen rides things.

Today's Otherlands special is a joke. I hope.

(Ed. note: As part of October's Month of Firsts, here's the story of the very first rock'n'roll song ever made.)

In 1951, in a fledgling studio in Memphis, Tenn. recorded the song that's widely regarded as the origin point for rock'n'roll (and the first recording to use distortion).

I'm back from vacation, you're back from the weekend, and a lot has happened in the meantime. Here's your Monday Memphis news update:

Ed. note: As part of October's month of Memphis firsts, I'm happy to share this guest post from Aaron Brame.

Come to the school where I work, and you will be surrounded by Hebrew. There are Hebrew books on every shelf, Hebrew posters on the walls, and the sounds of children singing in Hebrew echoing down the halls. I don’t know Hebrew, and when I shut the door to my classroom, I am the only illiterate there. I am also the teacher.

Here's what I played on this week's Memphis Mystery Train. As always, the local tracks are marked with an asterisk:

Today in Memphis, restaurants close, restaurants open, a reader finds an innovative one-stop-shop, and "The Sandlot" turns 20.

Give Venezuelan food a try at Arepa and Salsa, Memphis' newest (only?) Venezuelan restaurant.