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5 Things You May Not Have Known About Carla Thomas (Article)
Friday, December 21, 2018
Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most legendary female R&B singers of the 20 th century: Carla Thomas, who came by her talent honestly – her dad was Rufus Thomas – and then kicked it up a notch further. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a list of five things about Ms. Thomas that you may not be aware of. She started her music career as a member of group called the Teen Towns before she was even in her teens. When Thomas decided at age 10 that she wanted to join the Teen Towns, she wasn’t kidding around, but her request initially amused her father. In an interview with David
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Happy 50th: Eddie Floyd, KNOCK ON WOOD (Article)
Thursday, January 26, 2017
50 years ago today, Eddie Floyd released his debut full-length album, the title track of which remains one of the all-time great R&B singles of the 1960s. Recorded at Stax Studios during the back half of 1966, KNOCK ON WOOD was produced by Steve Cropper and Isaac Hayes, a couple of guys with some serious history in the R&B business. Then again, by the time his album was released, Floyd was not without his own street cred: he’d been a founding member of the Detroit-based group The Falcons, whose later lineup featured Wilson Pickett, and as a songwriter for Stax, he penned such notable numbers
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Isaac Hayes (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Inductee: Isaac Hayes (vocals, keyboards, production; born August 20, 1942, died August 10, 2008)Isaac Hayes was a multi-faceted talent: songwriter, producer, sideman, solo artist, film scorer, actor, rapper and deejay. He was hugely influential on the rap movement as both a spoken-word pioneer and larger-than-life persona who influenced everyone from Barry White to Puff Daddy. Hayes is best known for his soundtrack to Shaft, one of the first and best "blaxploitation" films, and for the song "Theme from Shaft," a Top 10 hit. But his varied resume boasts everything from backing up Otis Redding
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The Rhino Podcast - Otis Redding – "(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper (Article)
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The legendary Stax guitarist and producer Steve Cropper joins Dennis and Rich to discuss the impact of Otis Redding and the creation of the classic “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” Tune in here.
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Donald "Duck" Dunn 1941 - 2012 (Article)
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for the influential southern soul group Booker T. and the MGs, respected session musician for legendary Memphis soul label Stax, producer, and songwriter, died Sunday, May 13, 2012, while on tour in Tokyo. He was 70. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Dunn first picked up the bass guitar to play along with his friend and future band mate Steve Cropper. Self-taught, Dunn would play along to records, adding his own bass lines where he thought they were needed. After stints in The Mar-Keys, with their national hit "Last Night," and Ben Branch's big band, Dunn would settle in
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Otis Redding (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Although his career was relatively brief, cut short by a tragic plane crash, Otis Redding was a singer of such commanding stature that to this day he embodies the essence of soul music in its purist form. His name is synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, secular testifying. Redding left behind a legacy of recordings made during the four-year period from his first sessions for Stax/Volt Records in 1963 until his death in 1967. Ironically, although he consistently
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The Staple Singers (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Inductees: Roebuck "Pops" Staples (vocals, guitar; 12/28/15 – 12/19/2000); Cleotha Staples (vocals; 4/11/34 - 2/21/2013); Mavis Staples (vocals; born 7/10/39); Pervis Staples (vocals; born 11/35); Yvonne Staples (vocals; born 10/23/38)The Staple Singers have been called "God's greatest hitmakers." Steeped in the music of the church, this singing family from Mississippi crossed into the pop mainstream without compromising their gospel roots. Fronted by patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples, the Staple Singers have left an imprint of soulful voices, social activism, religious conviction and danceable
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Sam and Dave (Article)
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The greatest of all soul duos, Sam (Moore) and Dave (Prater) brought the sound of the black church to pop music with their string of call-and-response hits for Stax Records from 1965 to 1968. The pair usually worked with the songwriting and production team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, using Booker T. and the M.G.'s as backing musicians. From these collaborations came such soulful, fevered exchanges as "You Don't Know Like I Know," "Hold On, I'm Comin'," "You Got Me Hummin'," "Soul Man" and "I Thank You." Sam and Dave also gained renown as an electrifying live act in the Stax revues of the
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Mono Mondays: Rufus Thomas, Walking The Dog (Article)
Monday, October 27, 2014
This week’s Mono Monday release comes courtesy of a Memphis soul legend and one of the first Stax all-stars, but what’s more important is that its title track is one of the great R&B hits of all time. Rufus Thomas made his Stax Records debut with his 1962 single “Can’t Ever Let You Go,” but it was the following year that found him really starting to make an impact on the charts, thanks to “Walking the Dog,” which hit #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the R&B singles chart. Not one to let this canine recognition factor go to waste, Thomas promptly released a second single, “The Dog,” which
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Booker T & the MG's GREEN ONIONS 60th Anniversay Edition Sprouts in Feb. 2023 (Article)
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Sixty years ago, Booker T. & The MG’s transformed an impromptu studio jam into one of the most popular instrumentals ever recorded, “Green Onions.” An instant hit when it came out in the summer of 1962, the single topped the R&B chart and peaked at #3 on the pop chart before selling a million copies. That fall, the song became the title track to the band’s debut album, which, coincidentally, was also the first album released on Stax Records, the legendary Memphis-based record company that shaped the sound of Southern Soul in the Sixties. In celebration of this classic album’s anniversary
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