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Happy Holidays: Stax Christmas Playlist (Article)
Friday, December 22, 2017
When it comes to Christmas music, there’s certainly no shortage of holiday-centric songs to be found on your radio dial, but sometimes it takes something with a little bit more soul to help you find the spirit of Santa. Trust us, we get it, and we’ve dug into the archives here at Rhino HQ in order to compile the perfect playlist to help you get into a holiday mood while also getting a little bit funky, too. Please enjoy our Stax Christmas playlist, which features 22 tracks of Stax, all of which will keep your toes tapping and kick any holiday doledrums into oblivion. We’re talking about
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Out Now: Stax Artist Series (Article)
Friday, June 23, 2017
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to frequent visitors to Rhino.com that this year marks the 60th anniversary of Stax Records – we’ve mentioned it before, and we’ve also made a point of hyping how we’ve teamed with the fine folks at the Concord Music Group to celebrate the label turning the big 6-0 – but in case you haven’t been checking the “Coming Soon” calendar, it may be news to you that we’ve just reissued a quartet of classic Stax releases on vinyl. Wanna know which ones they are? That can be arranged! Sam and Dave, SOUL MEN: Get it on: Amazon || Rhino The third album from Sam Moore and
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Out Now: Stax Artist Series Vinyl (Article)
Friday, July 7, 2017
As you surely must know by now, this year marks the 60th anniversary of Stax Records – we’ve mentioned it before, and we’ve also made a point of hyping how we’ve teamed with the fine folks at the Concord Music Group to celebrate the label turning the big 6-0 – but in case you haven’t been checking the “Coming Soon” calendar, it may be news to you that we’ve just reissued a six-pack of additional classic Stax releases on vinyl. Wanna know which ones they are? That can be arranged! Booker T & The MGs, HIP HUG HER: Five years and several albums down the line from GREEN ONIONS, this album’s title
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Carla Thomas (Article)
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Gee whiz, is it Carla Thomas’s birthday again already? To celebrate the day this classic R&B artist first entered the world we’ve put together a list of 5 facts about Ms. Thomas that might have flown under your radar. And, no, “her dad was Rufus Thomas” isn’t on here. Give us a little credit, huh? 1. She was in the same high school singing group as Isaac Hayes, but they made her a member long before she ever got to high school. The Memphis radio station WDIA served as the sponsor of a rotating high school musical group called the Teen Town Singers, one which claimed both Isaac Hayes and Anita
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Dr. Rhino's Picks #85 (Article)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
This edition of Dr. Rhino’s Picks (#85 already…yeesh!) is dedicated to that jewel of Memphis, the Stax label and recording studio. Come on and groove with Otis, Sam & Dave, Eddie, Booker T., and the rest of the crew. This Big Bird is ready to fly! ABOUT DR. RHINO A young Dr. Rhino first encountered the magic of song whilst being born in the front seat of a Lincoln Continental. As the attending physician recalls, the tune was “Touch Me In The Morning” by Diana Ross. It was a mind-blower. Over the years, Dr. Rhino listened to many, many more songs. And, after several summers of diggin’ music
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Jim Stewart (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Inductee: Jim Stewart (record executive; born July 29, 1930)Jim Stewart and sister Estelle Axton were the co-founders of Memphis-based Stax Records. Stax and Motown were the two most important record labels in America in terms of bringing black music into the mainstream during the Sixties and Seventies. Stax recorded some of the greatest acts in the history of soul music – Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor and Carla Thomas among them. Even Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave, who were both signed to Atlantic Records, cut some of their greatest sides at
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Booker T. and the M.G.’s (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
As the house band for the Stax/Volt labels, Booker T. and the MG's helped define the spare, punchy sound of Memphis soul music. By contrast to Motown's orchestrated, pop-soul records, the Stax approach was lean, economical and deeply groove-oriented. Between 1963 and 1968, Booker T. and the MGs appeared on more than 600 Stax/Volt recordings, including classics by such artists as Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and William Bell. As a result of Stax's affiliation with Atlantic Records, the group also worked with Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, and Albert King
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Happy Birthday: Al Jackson (Booker T. & The MG’s) (Article)
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Today we celebrate Al Jackson, the legendary percussionist who sat behind the kit for Booker T. & The M.G.’s during their ‘60s heyday, into the ‘70s, and until his death in 1975. To celebrate the date, we’ve got the most recent MG’s best-of set for your listening enjoyment, but we’ve also put together a six-pack of tracks that you may not have realized featured Jackson’s playing. 1. Moms Mabley, I LIKE ‘EM YOUNG (1972): The biggest reason you probably weren’t aware that Jackson played on this album is that it’s virtually impossible to find a copy of it nowadays. There’s no clip from it on
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Enter to Win a prize pack from The King of Soul™ via Noise Trade (Article)
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the legendary Memphis soul label, Stax Records. As part of the year-long celebration, Rhino, in conjunction with the Concord Music group, are releasing a series of Stax Classics CDs, 12 track compilations featuring some of the best southern soul tunes by the likes of Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Booker T. & The MG’s, William Bell, Albert King, & of course, The Big O, Otis Redding. STAX CLASSICS: OTIS REDDING distills his incredible discography down to bona fide soul classics like “Try A Little Tenderness,” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” and “Respect,” which was
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Stay Tuned By Stan Cornyn: The Sultans Of Sweat (Article)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business. Sam Moore and Dave Prater became the greatest “gymnastic moves” singing act of the 1960s. The duo brought the energy and dynamic vocal style from the gospel church (“call-and-response”) to pop music. And on stage they moved like jazz dancers on fire. Signed early on by Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler, he felt Sam & Dave would be better recorded by Stax Records, down in Memphis, which made “Southern-sounding” records which Atlantic
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