Steve Cropper shares the secret to his remarkable output with Stax: ‘Everyone was there for the same reason’
The frenetic pace kept Steve Cropper so busy, there was often little time to actually take the stage to play.
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Steve Cropper explains his immediate connection with the Blues Brothers: ‘It was a community project’
“It was not just John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd,” Steve Cropper says of the Blues Brothers.
Booker T. and the MGs broke barriers with a light touch: ‘We were just out there to play music’
Booker T. and the MGs shared Stax Records’ message of racial tolerance by their very presence. But it wasn’t always easy.
When Billy Idol met Steve Cropper: ‘A long-haired chap came up to me’
Seems Billy Idol covered a Stax song, without knowing it was a Stax song.
Steve Cropper made one of his biggest career decisions in the bathroom: ‘Man, you can’t do that’
Inspiration, it seems, hits artists at the strangest times.
Big Star – #1 Record and Radio City (2014)
As brilliant as Alex Chilton no doubt was, there’s more to Big Star.
Mavis Staples + North Mississippi All-Stars, “I’ve Been Buked” (2014): Something Else! sneak peek
“Mercy!” Staples crows. “Oooh boy, you’re banging on that guit-fiddle!”
‘You won’t abuse my song’: Steve Cropper on the Stax hit that caused a tussle between Wilson Pickett and Eddie Floyd
“Here are these two guys,” Cropper marvels, “wrestling in the control room.”
Inside the Mysterious Naming of Booker T. and the MGs: ‘We Thought, What Do We Do?’
At first, Booker T. and the MGs were thought to have been named in tribute to producer Chips Moman’s car.
‘A storm came across the river’: Fate intervened during the construction of a legendary Stax track
“I don’t think,” Steve Cropper says, “I had even pulled my guitar out of the case yet.”
