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  • Gus Cannon, Walk Right In, 1963 on Stax

    Gus Cannon, Walk Right In, 1963 on Stax

    Jug Band leader Gus Cannon started recording in the late 20s as “Banjo Joe” and reappeared as part of the folk revival in the 50s on Folkways. This was his first and only Stax LP released in 1963. “Walk Right In” the song became a hit for the Rooftop Singers – who were credited with…

  • David Porter, . . . Into A Real Thing, 1971 on Enterprise

    David Porter, . . . Into A Real Thing, 1971 on Enterprise

    Porter was the staff songwriter for Stax – this was his second full length LP issued under his name, following up Gritty, Groovy, & Gettin’ It. Enterprise was a sub-label of Stax, which also released the early Isaac Hayes solo albums. (Apparently label president Al Bell was a Star Trek fan). Wonderful early 70s Stax/Volt…

  • David Porter, Chapter 1: Back in the Day, 2022 on MIME Records

    David Porter, Chapter 1: Back in the Day, 2022 on MIME Records

    David Porter is maybe best well-known as a songwriter and producer – the staff writer at Stax records who penned “Hold On, I’m Coming” and “Soul Man” among so many others, and who worked extensively with Isaac Hayes in the late sixties and early seventies. He’s also the found of The Consortium MMT in Memphis,…

  • The Mar-Keys / Booker T. and the MGs, Back to Back, 1967 on Stax

    The Mar-Keys / Booker T. and the MGs, Back to Back, 1967 on Stax

    The Mar-Keys were the backing band on lots of early Stax records, and had personnel overlap with what became the MGs & The Memphis Horns. Deanie Parker’s liner notes say “Booker T. & The MG’s . . . is the rhythm section of The Mar-Keys.” This album was recorded live on a Stax/Volt tour in…

  • Johnnie Taylor, Wanted: One Soul Singer, 1967 on Stax

    Johnnie Taylor, Wanted: One Soul Singer, 1967 on Stax

    Taylor replaced Sam Cooke in The Soul Stirrers before becoming a solo artist, and went on to have a big it in the mid-seventies with “Disco Lady” (1976). This album is recorded with the Stax house band, including Booker T & The MGs, and features five songs written by Isaac Hayes & David Porter as…

  • Frederick Knight, I’ve Been Lonely For So Long, 1973 on Stax.

    Frederick Knight, I’ve Been Lonely For So Long, 1973 on Stax.

    Frederick Knight, I’ve Been Lonely For So Long, 1973 on Stax. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue from Feb. 2021 – beautiful pressing remastered, with listening notes by Jared Boyd

  • Albert King; King, Does The King’s Things: 1969 on Stax

    Albert King; King, Does The King’s Things: 1969 on Stax

    Albert King; King, Does The King’s Things: 1969 on Stax Mine’s the 2020 Vinyl Me, Please Classics reissue AKA “Blues for Elvis” on some 80s issues Extra comma drives me nuts but the album is great and a very well done remaster & pressing

  • Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Call It What It Is, 2016 on Stax

    Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Call It What It Is, 2016 on Stax

    Love Ben Harper. 2016 on Stax

  • Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, 1969 on Enterprise Records

    Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, 1969 on Enterprise Records

    Isaac Hayes: Hot Buttered Soul, 1969 on Enterprise Records (ENS-1001). Found this at the Mill No.5 record fair back in October Enterprise was a division of Stax named after the Star Trek ship, which was Al Bell’s favorite TV show.