MG’s, Stax was poised to become one of the most important producers of Soul music by the end of the 1960s ... As he told the New York Times back in 1972, “There’s nothing fictional in my raps…I might ...
Sitting south of downtown Memphis, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed on Monday. General admission costs $15 for visitors ...
on ‘Soul Explosion,’ one of the great soul music compilations of all time. The remarkable thing about it was: Stax was right. Its company motto for ’69 was “Getting it all together,” and ...
Hot Buttered Singles 1969-1972 is an elegant collection assembling the earliest A- and B-sides from Hayes ... cuts (including the Johnny Mathis-ish “The Mistletoe and me” and its glutinous flip ...