1996
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Vor 4 Tagen · We're featuring interviews with musicians who were a big part of the Stax sound: Guitarist, songwriter, and producer Steve Cropper tells us about becoming part of the house rhythm section, and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The exclamation "Play it, Steve" heard in the song refers to guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band who provided the instrumentation for it and other Sam and Dave singles. Cropper provided guitar for both the original Sam and Dave recording as well as the live and studio covers by the Blues Brothers. Cash Box reviewed ...
Vor 18 Stunden · Jukebox. Steve Cropper. Steve Cropper was a well-known sessions guitar player for Stax and the guitar player for Booker T. and the MGs. In an interview with Guitar World’s Joe Matera, he reflected on the various guitars that he had used over his time in the music industry, most notably the Fender Squire, then Telecaster, then Peavey Telecaster he’d used to record hits like Booker T’s ...
Vor 3 Tagen · We're featuring interviews with musicians who were a big part of the Stax sound: Guitarist, songwriter, and producer Steve Cropper tells us about becoming part of the house rhythm section, and going on to help write hits for Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. Keyboardist Booker T. Jones remembers being pulled out of class in high school to go play music at Stax. And Issac Hayes tells us about ...
Vor 3 Tagen · “But a building is just a building. I’d seen people’s hearts and souls ripped out. After all the pain we had gone through, it didn’t mean anything at the time to see that building go.” But Parker got nostalgic when she and guitarist/producer Steve Cropper worked together to recreate the studio as the museum’s crowning exhibit.
Vor 4 Tagen · “When we inducted Steve Cropper into the Songwriting Hall of Fame, I’d written some of the lyrics for In The Midnight Hour [Wilson Pickett’s 1965 hit, co-written by Cropper] on the back because I didn’t want to mess up the lyrics in front of him.
Vor 18 Stunden · Highlights on the album – which credits such luminous accompanists as Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Mick Ronson, and Steve Cropper – include “I’m Not Sleeping,” one of three numbers co-written with Springsteen; “Fingerprints,” which Grushecky says is about “all the people who left their imprint on me”; and “East Carson Street,” a ballad that he calls “my love letter to ...
