The MG’s – keyboardist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson ...

The was for an undisclosed amount. In 1967, Otis Redding finished recording the song "Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay" in Memphis, TN. Tragically, 72 hours later he died in a plane crash at the ...

MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — Trumpeter Ben Cauley, the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that killed most of his bandmates and Stax star Otis Redding, has died. MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP ...

Redding joined Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers in 1958. In 1962 he drove Jenkins to Memphis, Tennessee for a recording ... Stax co-owner Jim Stewart allowed Otis to cut a couple of songs ...

(AP) — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle ... songwriters and instrumentalists to create the "Memphis sound" embodied by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T.

including “Otis Redding” and “Solomon Burke” — earned smiles from Memphis Mayor Paul Young and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, even if most of the other words in the sentences were ...

and the M.G.s, who played on a lot of other Stax recordings, including this beauty from Otis Redding ... and self-described hillbilly from outside Memphis, Tenn. He and his sister, Estelle ...

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Friday honoring the late entertainer Otis ... Redding joined Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers in 1958. In 1962 he drove Jenkins to Memphis ...