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Hace 17 horas · In the Max docuseries Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., you’ll thrill to some great old songs as you learn about the label’s important role in the history of America and popular music.
27 de abr. de 2024 · Uptown Saturday Night. April 20th, 2024. Today’s track is “The Breakdown,” an early 70s entry from Stax’s first hitmaker, Rufus Thomas. What’s “funky” or “groovy” is obviously a sort of a subjective you-know-when-you-know kind of thing. That said, Rufus Thomas was one of the few people in history who could justly call ...
12 de may. de 2024 · Few of rock & roll's founding figures are as likable as Rufus Thomas. From the 1940s onward, ... rock, and soul musicians. Thomas was already a professional entertainer in the mid-'30s, when he was a comedian with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. ... Thomas and his daughter Carla would become the first stars for the Stax label, ...
Hace 2 días · “David pushed past that green curtain at 926 East McLemore with me following, and that was the moment for me,” Jones tells USA TODAY, recalling his first session on the Carla and Rufus Thomas 1960 hit, “Cause I Love You.” “All that talent in one place, my, my,” says Jones, a multi-instrumentalist best known for the 1962 Booker T. and the MGs hit “Green Onions.” “It was ...
Hace 11 horas · Contributor: Dave Ross. Twitter can be a force for good if you curate it carefully, find like-minded souls and keep away from those subjects. At least that’s what I’ve found and so it proved again when, after seeing a tweet from The Kane Gang celebrating 40 years since the release of Small Town Creed, I idly suggested that I would make The Kane Gang my next Toppermost.
Hace 5 días · Stax: Soulville U.S.A., HBO’s four part documentary about the creation, rise and fall of the legendary record label, and about its staff and key musicians, is a must-see for anyone interested in popular music. But there’s more to the story than just hit records. You cannot separate the music of that era, especially African-American music, from the history of 20th Century America ...
2 de may. de 2024 · May 2, 2024. 8:00 AM. Print. Expand. photograph by louis tucker. Deanie Parker at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. The album of Deanie Parker’s musical life began at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the home of Stax Records, where she worked as a songwriter, singer, arranger, collaborator, and publicist. I sat down with her at the same ...
