RIP Jim Stewart

[danasgoodstuff]

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/

After Blue Note, Stax is my next favorite label.

[JSngry]

RIP to a true life-changer.

[soulpope]

A real innovator .... thank you for the music and R.I.P ....

[Bill Nelson]

A guy who learned a handshake deal with Jerry Wexler 'weren't worth shit'.

[danasgoodstuff]

Half of these guys went to high school with Stewart's nephew Packy Axton, Booker lived in the neighborhood where the studio was, and the drummer was the only one who was a professional musician pre-Stax.  Together they were the best session band ever IMHO, because they combined the professionalism necessary to that role with a visceral enthusiasm more typical of amateurs.

[soulpope]

21 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

Half of these guys went to high school with Stewart's nephew Packy Axton, Booker lived in the neighborhood where the studio was, and the drummer was the only one who was a professional musician pre-Stax.  Together they were the best session band ever IMHO, because they combined the professionalism necessary to that role with a visceral enthusiasm more typical of amateurs.

As the video is not visible in my area, who is featured .... ?

[danasgoodstuff]

59 minutes ago, soulpope said:

As the video is not visible in my area, who is featured .... ?

It's the MGs instrumental version of Dock of the Bay, which I found to be suitably somber and thus appropriate.

[soulpope]

27 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said:

It's the MGs instrumental version of Dock of the Bay, which I found to be suitably somber and thus appropriate.

Thnx ....