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Three Stax Records classics, remastered and reissued with bonus tracks.

Smoove Johnnie Taylor album on Stax is a thing of beauty.

Amazing interpretation of The Beatles final album.

Another gem from the Stax Remasters Series.

Johnnie Taylor was smooth as silk back in 1973.

Abbey Road meets McLemore Avenue.

Excellent collection of Albert's electric blues.

Over two hours of smokin' hot blues guitar from one of the masters.

New York, NY - Starwood Hotels and the Harlem Aloft Hotel will sponsor the partnership announcement of "StyleMakers-Rulebreakers Music Series "at the new Harlem Aloft Hotel Located at 2296 Frederick Douglass Avenue New York, NY 10027 on Wednesday February 23rd from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, with special musical performance by young teen rock sensation and NYC'S own Graveshift. Al Bell has been selected to receive a 2011 GRAMMY® Trustees Award, the highest honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contribution to the music industry in a non-performing capacity. Bell became a co-owner of Stax Records and grew the [...]

STREAM: Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere - "I Can't Stand It" On June 15th soul men Steve Cropper (Booker T. and the MGs) and Felix Cavaliere (the Rascals) join forces for their second collaborative Stax Recording (via Concord Records) Midnight Flyer . Following up their critically acclaimed 2008 release Nudge It Up a Notch , guitarist Cropper and vocalist Cavaliere's new album, Midnight Flyer , shows that the songwriting prowess of two titans of blue-eyed soul's golden age is still going strong. Assisting with [...]

Whoever said R&B is dead is dead wrong. There are still some great R&b artist out there. Leela James is one of them. Around since '05, when she released her debut album, Leela James has been been invoking the spirit of the great soul/R&B singers of the past, but with a contemporary approach. Ms. James has left her old label and is now signed to Stax Records , the legendary home of some of the greatest soul and R&B artists of the past half-century, to release her new album, My Soul . [...]

• Leela James - So Cold

John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd named The Blues Brothers after this group.

Check out new albums due in May from Broken Social Scene, The Black Keys, Leela James, LCD Soundsystem, Flying Lotus and The Hold Steady. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record Yep, they have a lot of members, as Brendan Canning explains , and they also have a lot of guests on the new album, including Feist, Emily Haines, members of Do Make Say Think, The Sea and Cake's Sam Prekop and Tortoise (John McEntire produced the whole thing). Their first since 2005's eponymous album, Broken Social Scene release [...]

A southern fried Stax O'Wax Trax that sounds just as finger lickin' good today.

MUSIC NEWS - Steve Cropper , guitarist forthe Blues Brothers, Booker T. and the MGs and one of the main architects of the unmistakable Stax sound of the 1960s along with vocalist/keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, the voice of the Rascals and the pivotal figure in the blue-eyed soul movement of that same era, have gotten back together for a second collaborative recording, MIDNIGHT FLYER (out June 15). Midnight Flyer , recorded in Nashville and mixed by the legendary David Z , is the followup to Nudge It Up a Notch , the 2008 [...]

The best of Memphis soul!

I just can't get over losin' you And so if I seem, broken and blue Walk on by, walk on by Foolish pride, that's all that I have left Thanks to a wonderful teacher in high school, I was fortunate enough to be exposed to the entire Stax singles catalog almost immediately upon becoming interested in 60's R+B. I went from one cd, Otis Redding's Greatest Hits, Volume 2 to The Complete Stax Singles 1959-1968. I think a lot of folks can hand something this comprehensive to a [...]

• Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum Dum) » thehappysong.mp3

Albert King - Crosscut Saw ( buy ) For some truly electrifying blues guitar, look no further than Albert King, a left-hander who usually played a right-handed axe upside down. His highly influentual Stax sides from the sixties still sound pipin´ hot today. From Clapton to Hendrix to Robbie Robertson, they all loved the man known as the Velvet Bulldozer. "I'm a crosscut saw, baby, just drag me across your log..." Hot dog!

• Albert King - Crosscut Saw

It's hard to believe that Otis Redding was only 26 when his plane crashed into Lake Monona on Dec. 10, 1967-26. Just a kid. You watch that old concert footage and there was this smartly dressed, larger-than-life man whose soul poured out in buckets of sweat. And that voice-it could pierce your heart or rip your head off ... both good things, of course, only in the analogical sense. The Best: See & Hear is the umpteenth collection dedicated to Redding-a two-disc CD/DVD of his songs as well as [...]

• Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
• Otis Redding - Tramp

MUSIC NEWS- Stax Records announced a November 3, 2009 release of Shaft (Deluxe Edition) , a digitally remastered version of the soundtrack for the classic Blaxploitation film that will includd a bonus track: " Theme From Shaft [2009 Mix ]." Ashley Kahn, author of several music books, contributor to NPR's "Morning Edition" and adjunct professor at New York University, wrote the liner notes for the deluxe edition. Back in 1971, the tune was everywhere. "Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?" Shaft? Damn right. Isaac Hayes' Shaft soundtrack album [...]