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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...
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...
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...
Jim Stewart, Stax Records co-founder and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 92
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s one of the strange twists of history that the greatest, funkiest soul label in the world, one...
“Paul McCartney was one of my favorite bass players. I didn’t do him justice”: Paying tribute to the...
Guitar World via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAs a member of Booker T. and the MGs, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn cut an instrumental version of the Beatles’...
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...
Jim Stewart, Stax Records Co-Founder, Dead at 92
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJim Stewart, co-founder of R&B label Stax and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on Monday, longtime staff Stax songwriter David Porter confirmed on...
Atlantic Label to Celebrate 75th Anniversary With Year-Long Rollout of 90 Vinyl Releases, From Led...
Variety via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe 75th anniversary of Atlantic Records is being celebrated by that label and its sister catalog...