Rhino Entertainment celebrates the 60th anniversary of Stax with a budget-friendly series of compilations and reissues
Booker T & The MGs
It’s New Year’s Eve! Everybody’s waiting for The Midnight Hour
A new collection celebrates the resurgence of a legendary soul label
Win a copy of Robert Gordon’s new history of Stax Records
Booker T & The MG’s never equaled the success of their first record
The Bar-Kays refused to let tragedy silence them
Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote a string of hits for Sam & Dave in the ’60s. Ken Shane recalls perhaps the greatest of them all.
Lowman Pauling and the 5 Royales were a seminal influence on the young Steve Cropper. The legendary guitarist pays tribute to the group on a fine new album.
Ken Shane will be covering the Newport Folk Festival for Popdose again this weekend. Among the artists he looks forward to seeing is soul legend Mavis Staples.
The Stax label released many of the seminal records in soul music history. The Stax Remasters series launches next week. We have a set for one lucky reader.
You have no idea what you’re missing. That’s what Judd Marcello’s here for. He says Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble is a rare musical experience you must not miss.
El Ten Eleven – Hotcakes from Every Direction Is North (2007) Ben Folds Five – She Don’t Use Jelly from Lounge-A-Palooza (1997) Rosemary Clooney – Black Coffee from Music from…
You know these guys, at least you know their work. Between them, Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere were complicit in the creation of dozens of hit records in the ’60s…