Jim Stewart, Founder of Soul-R & B Powerhouse Stax Records, Dies at 92

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Jim Stewart, the white nation fiddler whose powerhouse R&B- soul label Stax Records introduced such stars as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and Sam & Dave, has actually passed away at age 92 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he began the label in the 1950 s in an in-law’s garage. Stewart, extensively credited as a pioneer for his function in assisting incorporate American popular song at a time of stringent racial partition in the Deep South, passed away on Monday at a Memphis healthcare facility. His death was verified to Reuters on Tuesday by Tim Sampson, a representative for the Memphis-based Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Sampson stated the Stewart household did not reveal a cause of death. In Between 1959 and 1975, the label launched 800 songs and 300 albums, amongst them Hayes’ soundtrack for the 1971 film “Shaft,” which won him an Oscar. The skill lineup consisted of the Staples Singers, the Emotions, the Soul Children, and Booker T. & the MG’s, which functioned as a home band for Redding, Sam and Dave and ratings of other Stax artists. Redding’s signature struck “( Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay,” was tape-recorded at Stax. And Wilson Pickett’s advancement single, “In the Midnight Hour” was taped there as an outdoors production for Atlantic Records. The Stax label collected an overall of 8 Grammy Awards, produced 3 No. 1 strikes, a lots top-10 hits and 167 top-100 songs. Stewart himself was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in2002 Through the 1960 s and early ’70 s, the label measured up to its “Soulsville, USA” name, providing a grittier option to the bigger, assembly line strikes device of Motown Records. ‘HILLBILLY FIDDLER’ As kept in mind in a gratitude of Stewart released in the Memphis Commercial Appeal paper, it was a not likely twist of fate that “the best, funkiest soul
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