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NEW BO-KEYS CD
(June
22, 2011)
Scott Bomar's Bo-Keys are the heirs of the Mar-Keys, including some musicians previously at Stax: Willie Hall, Charles "Skip" Pitts, Ben Cauley and Floyd Newman.Some tracks are instrumentals and some have great singers, such as WiIliam Bell, Otis Clay, Charlie Musselwite or Percy Wiggins.
Worth it if you want to retrieve the good old Stax sound. Listen to the samples here: http://www.amazon.com/Got-Get-Back-Bo-Keys/dp/B004Z7HZ8E/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_G72.nb1ZEAKBD
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NEW CD BY STEVE CROPPER
(May
9, 2011)
Tracks :
Thirty Second Lover (featuring Steve Winwood) / Baby Don’t
Do It (featuring B.B. King & Shemekia Copeland) / Come On
& Save Me (featuring Dylan LeBlanc & Sharon Jones) /
Dedicated To The One I Love (featuring Lucinda Williams, Dan Penn,
Dylan LeBlanc, Keb Mo & Leroy Parnell) / Don't Be Ashamed (featuring
Bettye LaVette & Willie Jones) / Help Me Somebody / I Do (featuring
Brian May) / Just As I Am (featuring Dylan LeBlanc) / Messin Up (featuring
Sharon Jones) / My Sugar Sugar (featuring John Popper) / Right
Around the Corner (featuring Delbert McClinton) / Say It (featuring
Bettye LaVette) / The Slummer The Slum (featuring Buddy Miller) /
Someone Made You For Me (featuring Dan Penn) / Think / When I Get
Like This (featuring Lucinda Williams)
Produced by Cropper and Jon Tiven (Felix Cavaliere), they put together a session player dream team consisting of David Hood (bass), Spooner Oldham (piano/electric piano, organ), Steve Ferrone (drums), Steve Jordan (drums, percussion), Neal Sugarman (from the Dap Kings) and Tiven himself (saxophones).
THE
ROAD FROM MEMPHIS: NEW CD BY BOOKER T. JONES
(May
7, 2011)
Booker T. Jones' historic life in music has brought him international fame, awards (he's a three-time Grammy winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer), and iconic status as one of the architects of American soul music. With his new album The Road From Memphis due May 10 on Anti- Records, Jones traces his journey from his hometown of Memphis, TN to the world stage. The album follows Jones' 2009 Anti- release Potato Hole which won the Grammy for "Best Pop Instrumental Album."
Produced by Jones with The Roots' Questlove and Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliot Smith), Memphis was recorded by Daptone Records mastermind Gabriel Roth with backing by The Roots. Guest vocalists include Matt Berninger of the National and Sharon Jones on "Representing Memphis," Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket on "Progress" and Lou Reed on "The Bronx." The album also features a rare vocal from Jones himself offering a first-hand look at his hometown on "Down in Memphis." Legendary motor-city guitarist Dennis Coffey contributes to the album as well.
Tracklisting:
Walking Papers / Crazy / Progress (feat. Yim Yames of My Morning
Jacket) / The Hive / Down In Memphis / Everything Is Everything /
Rent Party /Representing Memphis (feat. Matt Berninger of The
National and Sharon Jones) / The Vamp / Harlem House / The Bronx
(feat. Lou Reed) / Just A Friend (bonus track) / The Seed (bonus
track) / Regulation time (bonus track)
MARVELL THOMAS GOT A NOTE ON BEALE STREET
(March
2, 2011)
Like many Memphis artists, Marvell Thomas, got a well deserved Beale Street note to appear on the famous Beale pavement. Marvell was a musician at Stax from the very beginning, son of Rufus and brother of Carla and Vaneese.
AL BELL RECEIVES A
GRAMMY AWARD
(February
16, 2011)
Al Bell Receives
2011 Trustees Award in Grammy Awards.
The Memphis Music Foundation and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located at the original site of Stax Records, proudly congratulate Al Bell on receiving the highest honor the music industry offers, the Trustees Award, given by the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy.
Bell now joins the pantheon of musical icons who have received the prestigious honor, including the Beatles, Walt Disney, George and Ira Gershwin, Berry Gordy, Duke Ellington, and Stax Records' ex co-owner Estelle Axton.
For Bell, the honor represents a milestone in his lifetime love of music and work in the industry and has been presented at an invitation-only ceremony during GRAMMY Week on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, and a formal acknowledgment will be made during the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast.
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