Memphis.
Yeah, I know the movie was set in Chicago, and they've got the accents to prove it. But the music was pure Memphis, and Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn even appeared in (and played in) the movie.
All of which is by way of saying that I read in Dustbury that Stax Records co-founder Estelle Axton has died.
And Stax, in the Sixties and early Seventies, was the most serious rival to Motown in the creation of that marvelous music known as Soul. The Stax house band, Booker T. [Jones] and the MGs [Memphis Group], backed up Sam and Dave, Rufus (and daughter Carla) Thomas, and scored hits on their own; sister label Volt was the home of Otis Redding.
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Craig Ceely at February 27, 2004 07:44 AM