Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memphis Music Hall of Famer Don Nix has died. A member of the early Stax group The Mar-Keys, Nix went on to a prolific career as a ...

A key figure in Memphis music and beyond, Terry Manning worked closely with artists across generations and genres, from the ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Steve Cropper, the guitarist whose influential work for Stax Records in Memphis helped define soul music in the 1960s and '70s died Wednesday in Nashville. He ...

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 ...

Over the course of a decade at Stax Records, Steve Cropper served as a guitarist, producer and linchpin of Booker T. & The M.G.’s ...

In 1962, when Cropper was doing an instrumental jam at Stax Records with organist Booker T. Jones and his band, the engineer hit record. The resulting record, "Green Onions," was a major hit. Steve ...

Let's get back to Terry's 1990 interview with Steve Cropper, the influential guitarist, producer and songwriter who generated many hits for the Memphis label Stax Records in the 1960s and '70s.