It featured several popular ethnically integrated bands (including the label's house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s) and a racially integrated team of staff and artists unprecedented in that time of …

The Official Stax Records Website, home to historic and influential artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & the MG's, Johnnie Taylor, & more.

Booker T. & the M.G.'s formed as the house band of Stax Records, providing backing music for numerous singers, including Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. [6]

Stax Records is critical to American music history as one of the most popular soul music record labels of all time. In 15 years, Stax placed more than 167 hit songs in the Top 100 on the pop …

May 22, 2017 · Compared to the polished, pop-influenced soul music produced by its main rival, Detroit’s Motown Records, Stax delivered distinctly Southern soul music that drew upon …

Party like it’s 1999 with Stax, the North East’s freshest Soul and Vintage RnB band. Available to book now for your wedding, function or party. Stax are a 7 piece funk and soul party band, …

Jul 3, 2024 · In the 1960s, as members of the Mar-Keys, the rotating slate of musicians that served as the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists …

The Story of Stax. Organized by Memphis’ Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts rebellion in Los Angeles, Wattstax was seen by some as the “Afro …

The bands were well received, but none of the Stax crew knew about the racial tension brewing Watts, or the meaning “burn, baby burn” would take the next day when the Watts Rebellion …

Amid the civil rights-era racial strife and deep-seated tensions of the late '50s and '60s, Stax fundamentally shaped American soul music, spawning the careers of legends such as Otis …