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Steve Cropper - The AMAZING Story Behind "Green Onions"

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From, our house to yours!

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Booker T. And the MG’s

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Donald "Duck" Dunn † May 13, 2012

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE 3.10 Seoul Mates

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Le Blues de Memphis - 1969 French Documentary

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(via JHALAL DRUT: Donald “Duck” Dunn)

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Love is stored in the "Green Onions." (Stax Records, 1962)

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“Going Down” Songwriter, Mar-Keys Co-founder Don Nix Dies at 83

Don Nix, the Stax session musician and solo artist who wrote “Going Down,” has died at 83.

Nix’s Dec. 31, 2024, death was announced by the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, where many of Nix’s photographs and artifacts reside.

No cause of death was given.

“Rest in peace, Memphis music legend Don Nix,” Tinsley Ellis wrote on social media.

A saxophonist, Nix co-founded the Mar-Keys, which served as the original Stax house band and eventually morphed into Booker T. & the M.G.’s. The first musician signed to Leon Russell’s Shelter Records, Nix released nine solo albums between 1971 and 2008 and is best known for writing “Going Down,” famously covered by Freddie King and the Jeff Beck Group.

The song “will be with us until the end of time,” the Stax Museum said.

Nix was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2023, which eulogized him as “an extraordinary songwriter, composer and arranger.”

“His contributions to music will forever resonate with us,” the hall said in a statement. “We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all who were touched by his incredible talent.”

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MUSIC MONDAY: "The Legend of Stax Records" Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy Music Monday, y’all. If you haven’t already, please dig Jamila Wignot’s new documentary “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.”, currently streaming on Max. The four-part film tells the story of Stax Records, the iconic R&B label, from its late-1950s beginnings to its 1975 demise. In its prime the label…

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Hottest Drummer Tournament Round 1

Willie Hall

Band(s): Isaac Hayes Movement // The Blues Brothers // The Bar-Kay’s // Booker T. & the M.G.’s

Albums/EPs as drummer:

Black Moses (Isaac Hayes) Shaft (Isaac Hayes) Disco Connection (Isaac Hayes Movement) Groove-A-Thon (Isaac Hayes) Chocolate Chip (Isaac Hayes) Juicy Fruit (Disco Freak) (Isaac Hayes) A Man And A Woman (Isaac Hayes & Dionne Warwick) New Horizon (Isaac Hayes) Hotbed (Isaac Hayes) For The Sake Of Love (Isaac Hayes) Don’t Let Go (Isaac Hayes) And Once Again (Isaac Hayes) Lifetime Thing (Isaac Hayes) Hot Buttered Soul (Isaac Hayes)

The Blues Brothers (The Blues Brothers)

Gotta Groove (Bar-Kays)

Universal Language (Booker T. & the M.G.’s)

Eddie Bayers

Band(s): The Players // The Notorious Cherry Bombs // The Medallion Band

Albums/EPs as drummer:

Live in Nashville (The Players)

The Notorious Cherry Bombs (The Notorious Cherry Bombs)

My Very Special Guests (George Jones)

9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (Dolly Parton)

Some Days Are Diamonds (John Denver)

Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (George Strait)

My Kind of Country (Reba McEntire)

King’s Record Shop (Rosanne Cash)

Love Me Like You Used To (Tanya Tucker)