Stax Records is synonymous with deep, gritty soul music. The Memphis-based studio and record label was responsible for countless titans of R&B, including Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, the ...

Stax Records spent decades spinning gold. The label nurtured a unique sound that blended R&B, gospel, blues, and country, eventually leading the way in a soul revolution. Stax became a home to icons ...

For something racily called an ‘earspeaker’, the Stax SR-X1 looks an awful lot like a pair of headphones. A quite old-school pair of headphones, what’s more, one that’s light (234g without the cable) ...

Dec 6 (Reuters) - Jim Stewart, the white country fiddler whose powerhouse R&B-soul label Stax Records launched such stars as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Sam & Dave, has died at age 92 in Memphis, ...

FILE - Stax Records founder Jim Stewart, center, poses for a photo with friends and students of the Stax Music Academy on April 29, 2013 in Memphis, Tenn. Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped ...

(Photo by Bill Carrier Jr., courtesy of Concord and HBO) HBO Documentary Films is in production on Stax, a multi-part documentary series exploring the Memphis-based record label Stax Records, which ...

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the release of The Dock of the Bay, the first album by Otis Redding to be released after his premature death in a plane crash in December 1967. The album’s title ...

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music has long been tied to the history of Memphis music and the Stax Records label. "The label launched the careers of artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, ...

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