Steve Cropper almost lost the Blues Brothers gig to Robben Ford: ‘I said – No, you won’t!’
Could there have been a different guitarist in that legendary band?
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‘I had exactly 17 dollars!’: Lack of a quarter almost cost Steve Cropper his Hall of Fame career
As a youngster, he pined for one of those Sears and Roebuck flat-top acoustics.
‘I just said immediately — this is it’: Steve Cropper knew he had a hit with this Otis Redding favorite
And it’s not like Cropper hasn’t had a slew of them, from Wilson Pickett to Otis Redding.
Steve Cropper opens up on his favorite new band: ‘The real Southern soul roots of music’
Not that it’s easy to draw an answer out of the famously even-handed Stax legend.
‘We were at the piano, banging it out’: Steve Cropper’s big break didn’t come from Stax Records
Instead, a friend’s dad took Cropper’s very first song to another legendary label.
‘I’m going to go out on a limb’: Steve Cropper on how technology is ruining modern music
Cropper is set for another European tour with the Animals later this year.
‘A powerhouse not to be duplicated’: Dan Aykroyd on the secret to the Blues Brothers’ success
They had the luck of timing and a classic R&B cut. They also had something else.
‘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.”
