Booker T. Jones, an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and arranger will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Jesse Jackson's career in politics and social justice activism brought him to Memphis time and time again in the 58 years ...

Steve Cropper, the guitarist known for his works with Booker T & the MG’s and the Blues Brothers, has passed away at the age of 84. His son, Cameron Cropper, confirmed the news of his death to Variety ...

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A cause of death was not immediately known. Longtime associate Eddie Gore said he was with Cropper on Tuesday at a rehabilitation facility in Nashville, where Cropper had been after a recent fall.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...

Mixing previously undiscovered recordings with some released in the ’90s, the album features electric performances by Stax artists. (Photo: Craft Recordings) In the great year of 1965, any soul fan in ...

US emissions technology firm Stax Engineering has been given the green light to use its emissions gathering kit on tankers in the US. The California-based firm has been given official authorisation to ...

Before this, he had been in gospel outfits The Five Echoes – who he joined in 1951 or 1952 at age 17 – and, from 1957, The Highway QC’s, who Sam Cooke had passed through. In August 1960, he took on ...

Old Gus Cannon strums his banjo by the coal stove in his little house just south of the railroad tracks in Memphis. He plays and sings the songs he wrote himself—songs like Madison Street Rag and Walk ...

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