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Vor 5 Tagen · 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 ...
Vor 5 Tagen · “In the Midnight Hour” is another timeless hit by Wilson Pickett, released in 1965. Written by Pickett himself along with Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the song is a soul ...
Vor 6 Tagen · 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 ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Steve Cropper was a founding member of the famed Stax Records house band Booker T. & The M.G.’s. His guitar, writing and production skills are heard on some of the 1960s‘ most iconic tracks including Soul Man and Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay.
Vor 5 Tagen · USA TODAY US Edition. ‘Stax’ doc goes past the hit parade. 2024-05-20 - Marco della Cava. Booker T. Jones was in math class at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when his life suddenly changed forever. David Porter, a fellow student and musician, told Jones he and his saxophone were needed immediately down at a recording studio ...
Vor 2 Tagen · As you may have heard, MAX has just launched a four-part series on the ups and downs of STAX Records from the early-‘60s to late-70s. With blacks and whites in the segregated city forming the house band (Booker T and the MGs), and later the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the city, race takes a central role at times, amid much early music by Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Sam ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The label had to effectively start over, which is when Bell, a former DJ and a master of promotion, began to work his magic and rebuilt Stax’s roster of stars and hits. Among Bell’s greatest accomplishments: orchestrating the famous 1972 Wattstax concert in Los Angeles and, the same year, campaigning successfully to land Isaac Hayes a Best ...
