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Hace 3 días · This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Stax Records produced some of the most important Southern soul music of the 1960s - music by such performers as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T and the M.G.'s, Isaac Hayes and The Staple Singers. Here are some examples of the Stax sound.
Hace 5 días · With hits from Redding, Rufus and Carla Thomas (“‘Cause I Love You”), and Sam & Dave (“Hold On, I’m Comin’”), Stax’s status grew, and a national distribution deal with Atlantic Records...
Hace 4 días · “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.” a four-part documentary series now airing on HBO and streaming on MAX, enlightens and entertains as it tells the ’60s/’70s Memphis soul label’s story.
Hace 4 días · Specifically, no American radio stations catering to white audiences or performance venues at the time were willing to embrace STAX phenomenons like Redding, Carla and Rufus Thomas, or Sam and Dave.
Hace 1 día · David Porter, a fellow student and musician, told Jones he and his saxophone were needed immediately down at a recording studio in largely Black south Memphis that was run by a white brother and sister, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton. The first two letters of their last names gave the studio its snappy moniker: Stax.
Hace 4 días · Carla Thomas, the Bar-Kays’ James Alexander, and songwriter David Porter all get the starring turns that they deserve. Historical footage — especially from the sanitation workers’ strike — puts Stax in more a vivid context.
Hace 4 días · The early Stax hits, as the company’s fortunes steadily rose through the mid-’60s, flow through the first two hours of “Soulsville U.S.A.,” and they carry you along on a continual, ... deeply felt rhythm and blues and Southern soul that performers like Carla and Rufus Thomas, ...
