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The Women of Stax: Five Unheralded Pioneers
- At a time when the music business was dominated by men, the Memphis soul label Stax Records employed a host of women in key positions.
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Jim Stewart, Stax Records Founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, Dies at 92
Jim Stewart, who founded what became the Stax Records label and produced some of the great soul records of the 1960s, died Monday at age 92. A cause of death was not released. Stewart co-founded the iconic, Memphis-based Black music label in 1957 and ran it, with eventual help from future figurehead Al Bell, until […]
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Jim Stewart, Stax Records Co-Founder, Dead at 92
"As producer, engineer, businessman and mentor, Jim Stewart was at the center of it all"
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Writer-Producer ‘Chips’ Moman For Posthumous Induction Into Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame
He joins the previously announced class of 2022, which includes Shania Twain and Steve Wariner.
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Stax songwriting great David Porter announces new album project, 'Chapter 1...Back in the Day'
Stax Records veteran David Porter's new album project features rising stars and veteran musicians performing some of his unreleased songs.
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Best Isaac Hayes Songs: 20 Tracks By A Soul Legend
The best Isaac Hayes songs revolutionized soul music, spearheaded symphonic soul and helped to invent the Blaxploitation genre.
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Stax Legends 3: William Bell’s Full Circle Of Soul
The soul great talks to us about a glorious career bookended by the famous label.
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Stax Museum offering virtual events for Black History Month
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music and its music academy in Tennessee are once again offering an online concert and a virtual tour in honor of Black History Month in February. The Memphis-based studio produced soul music by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, the Staples Singers, Booker T. and the MGs, Wilson Pickett and others in the 1960s and 1970s. The studio has been turned into a museum, and the adjacent Stax Music Academy teaches music theory, business and performance to young pe
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Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson win top Americana awards
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile added another trophy to her shelf as she won artist of the year at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards show, while country singer Sturgill Simpson took home the album of the year award. The annual awards show returned in-person on Wednesday at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, after it was canceled last year because of the pandemic. “To be artist of the year after a year like we have all had as a community, there's a weight to it and
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Jason Isbell, Allison Russell, Brandi Carlile Among Nominees for Americana Honors & Awards
Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Valerie June, Allison Russell and Amythyst Kiah are among the multiple nominees for the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards. The slate of nominations was announced during a ceremony held Wednesday afternoon at Nashville’s new National Museum of African American Music. Longtime Americana Awards honoree Isbell earned three nods, for artist of […]
