Steve Cropper grew up around the sounds he was asked to play during a memorable ‘Blues Brothers’ segment at a country bar. That wasn’t the issue.

“It was not just John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd,” Steve Cropper says of the Blues Brothers.

Jim Peterik enthuses about a recent collaboration with Steve Cropper and Ides of March, best known for the 1970 hit ‘Vehicle.’

Booker T. and the MGs shared Stax Records’ message of racial tolerance by their very presence. But it wasn’t always easy.

Jimi Hendrix and Steve Cropper would, on the surface, seem to have little in common. A memorable meeting at Stax showed otherwise.

Seems Billy Idol covered a Stax song, without knowing it was a Stax song.

Inspiration, it seems, hits artists at the strangest times.

Steve Cropper says his direct approach actually traces back to childhood.

Decades later, this kind of off-the-cuff aside is increasingly rare.

One key element kept him from following in Reed’s footsteps, though.