Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. & the MG's guitarist, has died. He was 84. Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, told The Associated Press that ...
Steve Cropper, one of the true pillars of Stax Records, has died. Cropper’s son, Cameron, confirmed his passing to Variety. He was 84. The Missouri-born Cropper moved to Memphis at the age of 9, got ...
Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist who was a session musician with Stax Records in the '60s, has died. He was 84. The Missouri-born guitarist played on dozens of hit records over the decades, ...
Steve Cropper, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who helped form the “Memphis soul” sound on Stax Records recordings by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Booker T. & the M.G.’s, died today. He ...
Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s ...
In the 2008 documentary It Might Get Loud, Jimmy Page mesmerizes The Edge and Jack White like awe-struck children when he begins playing the guitar riff to “Whole Lotta Love”. Now, White and The Edge ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...
The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay.” By Roy Trakin Steve Cropper, a founding member of ...
Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist with Booker T and the MGs, has died at the age of 84. The musician, who played on and co-wrote Otis Redding's Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay and Wilson Pickett's ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Phil Upchurch, a prolific session musician who played guitar on records by artists such as Michael Jackson, Curtis ...
As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s. Steve Cropper in 1973. His guitar licks could ...