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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HBO Documentary Films is in production on Stax, a multi-part documentary series exploring the Memphis-based record label Stax ...

Bettye Crutcher, one of the distinctive songwriters of soul music’s golden era, has died. A staff writer at Stax Records, Crutcher helped pen hits and classics for the label’s stars including Johnnie ...

Jim Stewart, co-founder of R&B label Stax and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on Monday, longtime staff Stax songwriter David Porter confirmed on Monday. Stewart was 92. “No way a poor kid from a ...

It’s one of the strange twists of history that the greatest, funkiest soul label in the world, one of the most powerful outlets for Black expression, was started by a white hillbilly fiddler named Jim ...

In the early 1970s, Al Bell was a driving force in making Stax Records the second-largest African-American-owned business in this country. And while Stax might not be as famous as Motown Records, the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. –At the Soulsville campus in South Memphis, home to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy, news of Steve Cropper’s death prompted a wave of emotion. “When I told ...