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David Porter

David Porter is certainly most well-known as the songwriting partner of Isaac Hayes through the 1960s. Working as home composers for Stax, they penned the majority of Sam & Dave’s strikes, including such classics simply because “Spirit Man” and “HANG ON! I’m Arriving”; in addition they wrote materials for other …

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Maurice White

Singer/drummer/songwriter/manufacturer Maurice Light founded the ’70s supergroup Globe, Wind & Fireplace. Light, a former program drummer for renowned Chicago-based brands OKeh Information and Chess Information (Etta Adam, Fontella Bass, Billy Stewart, Ramsey Lewis, Sonny Stitt’s 1966 LP Spirit in the night time, the Radiants, amongst others), aspired to create a …

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Homer Banks

Composer and maker Homer Banking institutions was among the unsung heroes at the rear of the rise of Stax Information; though an excellent soul vocalist in his very own right, he hardly ever documented for the label, rather teaming with Bettye Crutcher and Raymond Jackson once we Three, the songwriting …

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Donald “Duck” Dunn

Because the bassist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Donald “Duck” Dunn became, like Adam Jamerson at Motown, the person who supplied a groove for a whole era to dance to. In Dunn’s case it had been the renowned Memphis record label Stax/Volt, where he laid down basslines for spirit …

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Charles “Packy” Axton

Charles “Packy” Axton was a player in the Memphis spirit picture in the 1960s, but he certainly had a knack for generate the proper place at the proper period, and was an integral body behind two seminal strike singles. Delivered on Feb 17, 1941, Axton was the kid of Estelle …

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Don Nix

Writer of the blues common “HEADING DOWN,” Don Nix is among the more obscure statistics in Southern spirit and rock. Being a manufacturer he spent some time working with Freddie Ruler, Jeff Beck, and Furry Lewis, amongst others; as an musician, he provides released single albums on Shelter and Elektra, …

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