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Happy Birthday To Legendary Guitarist Steve Cropper
If Yankee Stadium is “the house that Babe Ruth built,” Stax Records is “the house that Booker T,…
02/11/2014
STAX CEO SHOCKED TO FIND THAT ATLANTIC RECORDS OWNS ALL MASTERS; ENDS DEAL
Stax Records owner Jim Stewart refused to re-sign a distribution deal with Atlantic Records and terminated the agreement…
05/06/2013
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ASSASSINATED AT MEMPHIS MOTEL WHERE LEGENDARY R&B MUSICIANS GATHERED
MLK ASSASSINATED AT MOTEL WHERE LEGENDARY SONGS WERE CREATED
04/04/2013
WILLIE MITCHELL DEAD AT 81
R&B legend Willie Mitchell died today (January 5, 2010) at the age of 81. Mitchell had a heart…
01/05/2013
Stax Records Files For Bankruptcy
Memphis, Tennessee based record label Stax was forced into bankruptcy today (December 19, 1975). Stax was forced into…
12/19/2012