‘Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos’ (2023)
Cheryl Pawelski spent 17 years saving great music from irretrievable oblivion for ‘Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos.’ It was time well spent.
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Steve Cropper on the Beatles’ flirtation with Stax: ‘Didn’t happen for a lot of different reasons’
At the peak of their powers, the Beatles considered recording an album at Stax Records in Memphis. Steve Cropper sorts out why it never happened.
Inside Booker T. and the MGs’ stirring ’90s-era comeback: ‘It went by like a rocket’
A single moment propelled Booker T. and the MGs toward a long-deserved return to the spotlight in the 1990s. Steve Cropper remembers.
Steve Cropper on the Black Crowes’ cover of ‘Hard to Handle’ : ‘They threw it off time by half a beat’
Steve Cropper offers his take on the Black Crowes’ 1990 hit version of an Otis Redding classic, and reveals a special connection with the band.
Birth of Booker T. and the MGs has an intriguing backstory: ‘I only found out later the real reason’
Steve Cropper thought he was going to talk to Booker T. Jones because he could round out the band on keyboards. There’s a lot more to it.
Steve Cropper explains his in-the-moment genius: ‘I don’t practice! We don’t do that!’
Steve Cropper’s life-long success as a sideman, songwriter and producer hasn’t come from spending endless hours in the woodshed. In fact, far from it.
Isaac Hayes needed help to complete Sam and Dave’s ‘Soul Man’: ‘I can’t think of an intro’
Stuck for a beginning, Isaac Hayes tracked down Steve Cropper elsewhere in the Stax building — and the final piece of a Sam and Dave hit emerged.
For Steve Cropper, the Blues Brothers were an emotional homecoming: ‘Got to relive our careers all over again’
More than a decade after the bulk of Steve Cropper’s most famous sides at Stax Records, something magical happened.
Otis Redding tried something new with ‘Dock of the Bay,’ even if someone else got credit
Steve Cropper talks about a memorable moment of improvisation by Otis Redding, and debunks a myth that’s surrounded it ever since.
Steve Cropper explores the mysteries of his ageless guitar style: ‘It was all accidental’
Steve Cropper has become one of the most respected of sessions men, a guitarist of economy, grit and grace. But how?
