Tag Archives: Stax

Walk On By

By Gold | Published: February 14, 2010
I’ve been digging into the Stax again lately and am just floored by Steve Cropper’s versatility and style as a guitarist. His stuff on ANY given Otis Redding song would be the high-water mark for any other session musician’s career. Not that he was just a session musician, mind you. Hardly a journeyman, Cropper stuck [...]
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Stax Records 1959 – 1968

By Gold | Published: February 26, 2008
This is really the heart of it. Songs without pretense. Fun, beautifully arranged, and staffed by the world’s greatest backing band. There is this infectious quality to the Stax sound, and by the end of the song you don’t just like it, you hope for it’s success. Each of these songs was recorded around the [...]
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