Stax Records is synonymous with deep, gritty soul music. The Memphis-based studio and record label was responsible for countless titans of R&B, including Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, the ...

Dec 6 (Reuters) - Jim Stewart, the white country fiddler whose powerhouse R&B-soul label Stax Records launched such stars as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Sam & Dave, has died at age 92 in Memphis, ...

The streaming era has seen such an unrelenting onslaught of music documentaries, the quality of which usually ranges only between varying shades of pedestrian, that it’s surprising to come across one ...

Stax Records spent decades spinning gold. The label nurtured a unique sound that blended R&B, gospel, blues, and country, eventually leading the way in a soul revolution. Stax became a home to icons ...

Bettye Crutcher, one of the distinctive songwriters of soul music’s golden era, has died. A staff writer at Stax Records, Crutcher helped pen hits and classics for the label’s stars including Johnnie ...

Jim 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 Monday. Stewart was 92. “No way a poor kid from a ...

In the early 1970s, Al Bell was a driving force in making Stax Records the second-largest African-American-owned business in this country. And while Stax might not be as famous as Motown Records, the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build ...

Memphis' Stax Records was an international sensation, putting out hits like Sam and Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming," "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs and Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness." ...

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