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STAX
NEWS
page 29
STAX HONORED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
(June 22, 2007)
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The Stax record company has been
honoured by the U.S. House of Representatives this week as it
celebrates 50 years of soul music. Resolution 154 passed
unanimously, with representatives from both sides of the
political coin commenting on the label's importance.
STAX 50 CONCERT NEXT
JUNE 22
(June 10, 2007)
CARSON WHITSETT DIED
(May 9, 2007)
courtesy Tim Whitsett Sr
Ex Booker T. & The MG's member James Carson Whitsett, Sr. died Tuesday May 8, 2007 at home in Nashville after a 15-month bout with brain cancer. Born May 1, 1945 in Jackson, Carson graduated from Murrah High School in 1963. He attended Millsaps College, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha, and Belhaven College.
A gifted musician and composer, Carson’s professional life as a keyboardist, songwriter, and recording artist began in high school as a member of his brother’s band, Tim Whitsett & The Imperials.
In the early 1970s, Carson joined Stax Records in Memphis as a session musician and recorded an album as a member of noted instrumental group, The MGs.
Returning to Jackson, Carson joined the Malaco Records house band and performed on one of the highest selling Blues albums of all time, Down Home Blues by Z.Z. Hill, and numerous albums by legends such as Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, B.B. King, Little Milton, and Johnnie Taylor. During this time, Carson also played on albums by Paul Simon, Paul Davis, Connie Francis, et al, scored three movies, wrote songs for Malaco artists, and co-produced a single by Fern Kinney that reached number one on the British Top 100.
His first major success as a songwriter came in 1980 with Fred Knoblach’s Why Not Me. Building on this success in Nashville, Carson co-wrote Dear Me for Lorrie Morgan (with Jacksonian Scott Mateer), Mississippi Moon (co-written with Tony Joe White), and the title song of Solomon Burke’s Grammy-winning album Don’t Give Up On Me. Other notable artists who recorded Carson’s songs include The Staple Singers, Conway Twitty, Barbara Mandrell, Wilson Pickett, Jerry Butler, Etta James, and Joe Cocker. As a producer-arranger, his credits included Patti Page, Dorothy Moore, and soul icon Eddie Floyd.
Carson was country music star Kathy Mattea’s keyboardist for many years, which gave him the opportunity to play with full symphony orchestras. He toured Europe several times, with Mattea, Tony Joe White, and various Malaco artists.
Even after his diagnosis, Carson
continued composing and recording until this past February, when
he could no longer work. Yet, in his final weeks, his renowned
wit entertained a continuous line of well-wishers.
BOOKER T. & THE
MG'S AT MONTREUX 2007
(April 22, 2007)
Montreux, July 20, 2007:
A Blues Night with VAN
MORRISON
SOLOMON BURKE
DR. JOHN
BOOKER T & THE MG'S
A STAX 50TH
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL WEB SITE
(April 3, 2007)
A fine web site
from Concord Records with all the events that are going to happen
in 2007 about Stax: http://www.stax50.com/
CLIPS FROM THE SXSW
SHOW IN AUSTIN, TX
(March 26, 2007)
Photo from The Memphis
Flyer
See some video clips from this
great show which happened in Austin, TX, a few days ago on
youtube. Read also the review in the Memphis Flyer: http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid:25992. The links to the clips: go to http://www.youtube.com/ and search "stax+sxsw"
LUTHER
INGRAM DIED
(March 20, 2007)
Luther Ingram, whose recording of "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right)" was a No. 1 hit in 1973, died Monday 19 in St. Louis, Mo. He'd had a kidney transplant several years ago and fought kidney failure for most of the last decade.
Starting out with his brothers as The Gardenias in Alton, Ill., Ingram went on to a solo career with Koko Records, which was distributed by the famous Stax label. He co-wrote the Staples Singers hit "Respect Yourself" with Sir Mack Rice. Ingram's other hits included "Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)" and "I'll Be Your Shelter."
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