The majestic multi-instrumentalist changed the course of soul music and did it with Blackness as the focal point of his ...

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Steve Cropper, who has died aged 84, was a musician, songwriter and producer, and a crucial figure in the development of the ...

As a member of Stax Records' Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the '60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.

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INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

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