It’s safe to say that Memphis loves Booker T. & the MGs. For those who know music, the entire Stax Records catalog is held in reverence, and rightfully so. It’s especially fitting that the Stax house ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Cropper in 1967: later that year he wrote and recorded (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay with Otis Redding, who was killed in ...

When Stax Records, the famed Memphis soul label, needed a bassist to accompany one of its A-list artists, it called on musician Donald "Duck" Dunn. Together with his childhood friend, guitarist Steve ...

Booker T. & the MG’s Guitarist Steve Cropper Dies at 84He was also the Steve that John Belushi says “Play it, Steve” to on “Soul Man.” ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...