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'Stax' doc looks at extraordinary music studio that fell to financial and racial struggles
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoBooker T. Jones was in math class at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when his life...
Booker T. Jones performs at Stax, ahead of milestone
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWearing a blue suit, black hat and multi-colored socks, master keyboardist Booker T. Jones leaned away from the Hammond B3 organ, tilted his head back...
New Stax Collection Will Make You Rethink One of American Music’s Most Important Record Labels
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe story of Stax records has long been smoothed over and sculpted into a neat bundle of Southern...
Memphis soul great Spencer Wiggins dead at 81
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSpencer Wiggins, one of the greatest deep soul singers, has died. The Memphis native ― who recorded for the Goldwax and FAME labels in the 1960s and ‘70s...
It Was One of Music’s Greatest Hit Machines. We’re Remembering It All Wrong.
Slate via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe streaming era has seen such an unrelenting onslaught of music documentaries, the quality of...
Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Only the Strong Survive’ Isn’t Strong Enough to Be the Soul Covers Record Fans...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen it was announced that Bruce Springsteen would celebrate the sweet sounds of soul music with a...
‘Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.’ Salutes ‘Tenacious’ Spirit Behind Label Home of Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding,...
Billboard via Yahoo News· 1 week agoNearly 50 years after being forced to close its doors in 1975, venerable label Stax Records became a...
Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax...
From Carla Thomas to Isaac Hayes, HBO Stax documentary is story of 'Soulsville' — and America
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago"We as a Black people have made something fantastic." Those words can be heard in "Ailey," a 2021...
Stax Records founder Jim Stewart, who helped produce the 'Memphis sound,' is dead at 92
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEstelle Axton, Jim Stewart Charlie Gillett Collection/Redferns "It's one of the strange twists of...