Browsing: Stax Records

Grammy Nominees for Best Blues Album Remembering Little Walter Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia &…

With a fascinating story singing with soul greats at both Motown and Stax during it’s heyday, Smokey’s been bringing his trademark sound to the blues in Tweed Funk

This Saturday, April 27th, the Hartford radio station WRTC FM will present a six-hour tribute to the great recordings & musicians of the Stax/Volt label — broadcast LIVE from the Stax Museum of American Soul in Memphis, Tennessee

Tonight, the late Albert King will be inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, taking his rightful place between the other two kings of blues.

The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced the six 2013 inductees, and among them is the legendary Albert King.

In 1972, forty years ago today & seven years after the infamous Watts riots, a concert unlike any other was held at the famous Los Angeles Coliseum.

Memphis honored one of the finest musicians to ever play in that music mecca with a musical parade/funeral march down the iconic Beale Street. Saxophones, drums and trumpets were played by musicians as they walked, marched and danced, paying homage to the late Donald “Duck” Dunn.

Charles “Skip” Pitts, the wah-master soul and blues guitarist from Memphis and best known for his work on Isaac Hayes’ track, “Shaft” and the Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing”, has passed away.

The Memphis Horns, Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love, have received the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. The duo’s vast collection of musical accomplishments are almost unmatched.

Though Otis passed 44 years ago today, his musical impact has never stopped, slowed or waned. The music Otis created in his six-year recording career has touched millions of lives across generations.