Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596915773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rick Spell said Perfect Stax History. Love Memophis music? Love R&B from the 60s? Stop what you are doing and buy this book! This book is the definitive history of Stax, the Memphis recording studio that made Issac Hayes, Otis Redding and others. It is truly fascinating and I couldn't recommend this book higher if you have interest in those subjects. From the early music to Rufus and Carla Thomas, to Steve Cropper, the Bar Kays, Booker T and the MGs, it's all here.But the highlight has to be the guitar player who came in with his . An Epic Tale of Rise and Fall Larry Hartzell Gordon tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the venerable Stax label in a way that one suspects that only a Memphian like him can. From a tiny studio fronted by a record store to the fifth largest black-owned business in America, Stax produced a grittier, more "real" alternative to the pop-oriented African American music coming from Motown in the Sixties and early Seventies -- a veritable "soul explosion," as Gordon puts it. His tale is based on interviews with the label's owners. The Whole Story - gotta read this book! Big Dan We passed on Graceland and went straight to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. It was a moving and informative experience, and I came away with a naive, romantic notion of a happy place where hometown geniuses gathered in an atmosphere of of creative joy and color-blindness. After reading "Respect Yourself", I now know that it was that kind of a place, but that there was so much more to the story. Gordon presents an engaging tale of the place and the players, with a degree of detail that
Stewart, a fiddle player who knew he'd never make it in the music business himself, one day overheard a friend talking about producing music; he soon gave it a try, and eventually he was supervising the acclaimed producer Chips Moman in the studio as well as creating a business plan for the label; Estelle Axton set up a record shop in the lobby of the theater, selling the latest discs but also spinning music just recorded in the studio and gauging its market appeal. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Today, the Stax sound permeates our lives and, in Gordon's words, became the soundtrack for li
A generation later, Stax is rebuilt brick by brick to once again bring music and opportunity to the people of Memphis. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Set in the world of 1960s and '70s soul music, Respect Yours