The Memphis soul label Stax/Volt will issue two comprehensive box sets of the singles it released in the late Sixties through the mid-Seventies for the first time digitally. The box sets, which ...
Stax Records defined the "Memphis Sound" of soul music in the 1960s. With a roster that took in Otis Redding, Booker T & The MGs, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas and Isaac Hayes, Stax and its sister label ...
In 1967, Stax Records sent its top artists on a first-ever tour of Europe, which became known as the legendary Stax/Volt European Tour. Now, to recognize the 50th anniversary of the milestone event ...
75-Minute Concert from Legendary European Tour Includes Performances by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T & the MGs, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd and the Mar-Keys LOS ANGELES, Calif. - To celebrate the ...
From the limousines the Beatles sent to meet the Stax-Volt Revue at Heathrow Airport in March 1967 to Booker T. & the MGs’ McLemore Avenue album, released three years later as a homage to the Fab Four ...
Dave Hoekstra heads to 926 McLemore Avenue in Memphis, home of the Stax Museum and Stax Music Academy, an after-school and summer music academy dedicated to music education and soul appreciation. He ...
Paul Gambaccini recalls The Stax Volt Tour of 1967 which brought to Europe soul greats Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, and Booker T and the MGs. For many of these poorly travelled musicians, it was their ...
Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., a four-part docuseries now streaming on Max, tells the story of the record label that integrated its business practices and personnel in the recording studio when its hometown ...