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Hace 1 día · Names like guitarist Steve Cropper and singer-songwriter Carla Thomas recount their experiences, painting a vivid picture of the label's heyday. According to the Billboard interview with Wignot, ...
Hace 1 día · Stewart and Axton, former Stax president and owner Al Bell, guitarist Steve Cropper, musician/songwriter David Porter, singer-songwriter Carla Thomas and Bar-Kays members James Alexander and ...
Hace 1 día · A Great New Documentary Corrects the Record About One of Music’s Most Important Chapters. With Soulsville, U.S.A., HBO gives Stax the sweeping, complex documentary it deserves. The streaming era ...
Hace 20 horas · Journalism professor Ericka Blount, musicologist Rob Bowman and freelance journalist TJ Armour join Elamin to reflect on the history of Stax Records, the new HBO series Soulsville USA and how it ...
Hace 4 días · This HBO documentary explores the often precarious history of the legendary label, whose artists included Booker T. & the M.G.s, Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes.
Hace 2 días · Isaac Hayes at Wattstax 1972, a concert organized by Stax's driving force in its latter years, onetime DJ Al Bell. Hayes was a massive songwriting talent for the studios various stars before branching out on his own, eventually winning an Oscar in 1972 for "Theme from Shaft." The label had to effectively start over, which is when Bell, a former ...
Hace 3 días · With Booker T. Jones on Hammond organ and Al Jackson Jr. on drums, plus Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass and Steve Cropper on guitar, the mix of Black and white players—who would scrape the top of the charts with their very first release, and who would go on to become the house band at Stax behind some of its best-loved songs—they represented everything Stax stood for: great music and an ...
