and the M.G.'s, the label's core backup band (and recording artists ... racism lingered.Stax started as a record store with a recording studio in the back, and Booker T. Jones recalls how both ...

Sam Moore, who with with partner Dave Prater helped bring the sound of the church to pop music with a string of call-and-response hits as the high tenor in the famed Stax Records duo Sam & Dave ...

Seated behind his organ at Stax Records’ recording studio in Memphis in the Sixties ... and the MG’s, Stax’s house band, Jones played on soul landmarks by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett ...

Sitting on the original site of the Stax Records studio, this museum commemorates American soul legends (particularly the artists who recorded at Stax). Among the museum's collection of more than ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stax Music Academy (SMA) celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025, focusing on youth, education, and the ongoing legacy of soul music. As part of its ...

A member of the early Stax group The Mar-Keys ... Nix would continue to make solo records for the Cream label, though his work in the studio — both as an artist and producer — would tail ...