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May 20, 2024 · 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. By Jack Hamilton ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Guitarist Steve Cropper, organist Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald (“Duck”) Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson, Jr., had numerous hits as Booker T. and the MG’s, and they made many more records as the rhythm section (and, in effect, producers) for most of the recordings at Stax during the decade, sometimes aided and abetted by pianist Isaac ...
May 19, 2024 · In the documentary, he expresses shock that none of his white bandmates, named guitarist Cropper and bassist Dunn, brought up King's killing. The doc then cuts to a surprised Cropper, who says ...
May 29, 2024 · Anyone needing a crash course on the improbable story of Stax Records – from its meteoric highs to its sad lows – would do well to take in HBO’s “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.,” a two-part, fourhour documentary by Jamila Wignot (“Ailey”).
Jun 3, 2024 · Booker T. and the MG’s, American band that was among the finest instrumental ensembles in soul music in the 1960s. The original members were organist Booker T. Jones (b. November 12, 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.), drummer Al Jackson, Jr. (b. November 27, 1935, Memphis—d.
May 16, 2024 · Those who know will know that Otis Redding’s triumph at the 1967, hippie-centric Monterey Pop Festival (“We were the only people within miles that had suits,” says STAX trumpeter Wayne Jackson)...
May 20, 2024 · Booker T. Jones was a precocious multi-instrumentalist who started playing Stax sessions when the label was still called Satellite. By 1962 he had his dream team: guitarist Steve Cropper, drummer Al Jackson Jr., and bassist Lewie Steinberg (replaced by Donald “Duck” Dunn in 1965).
