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1 day ago · My personal connections may run deeper than most people not from that neighborhood. I was privileged to visit the studio in 1972 as part of a high school summer enrichment program. Deanne Parker, a Stax original, was our gracious hostess, and gave us all cool press packets with some beautiful, glossy 8 x 10’s.
May 29, 2023 · They marched him and the other employees to the parking lot in single file, with Jim Stewart in front, and padlocked the doors behind them. Parker’s utopia was long gone.
- Burkhard Bilger
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. The streaming era ...
May 20, 2024 · Whether anyone fully realizes that is another matter. But to the rescue comes Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., a four-hour documentary directed by Jamila Wignot and streaming on HBO (its first two parts ...
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May 20, 2024 · Says Parker: "Those with the power, they wanted Stax Records to be erased." Jones, meanwhile, tells Wignot that the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis in 1968 exposed the fact ...
May 2, 2024 · CHAPTER TWO “Soul Man”. Debut date: MONDAY, MAY 20 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) Stax Records finally breaks through to the white market, with their crossover hit “Soul Man” and Otis Redding’s performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. But Redding’s untimely death, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., legal obstacles, and ...
May 20, 2024 · The early Stax hits, as the company’s fortunes steadily rose through the mid-60s, flow through the first two hours of “Soulsville U.S.A.,” and they carry you along on a continual, grinning ...
