#624 : Steve Cropper / Guitar Player, Songwriter, Producer for Stax Records

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today on a brand episode of Let There Be Talk my guest is Stax Records and Booker T & The M.G.’s legend Steve Cropper.

This man has played guitar with everyone Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett John Lennon, Ringo Starr, The Blues Brothers and hundreds more. We sit down and talk about his incredible life in the music biz including his recent Grammy Nominated Record “Fire It Up”.

I’ve told this story many times before one of the best concerts I ever saw was Neil Young backed by Booker T & The MG’s at the Shoreline in the Bay Area. I still think about that show all the time.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's happening? Welcome everybody. It is Monday December 13th and it is another episode of Let's
0:07.2	Be Talk brought to you by Cactus Radio Network, my podcast network. You can find all of my podcast,
0:16.9	Dark Fonsi at home with Byron Katie, the Grail, and Let's Be Talk at cactusradionetwork.com.
0:24.7	Absolutely free. Let's kick into it. It is a great, great day here. Full blown legend is joining me.
0:33.8	Mr. Steve Cropper, the Colonel himself from Booker T and the MGs. I can't even tell you. I could sit here
0:43.2	for an hour and name off this guy's credits and it still wouldn't cover it all. I played guitar
0:49.6	with Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, John Lennon, Ringo Star, the Blues Brothers. He's produced Jeff
0:56.6	Beck. He's worked with everybody. I mean everybody, Bob Dylan. I mean, come on, man. It's just crazy.
1:05.6	But the stacks recording, that catalog and Booker T and the MGs, it's just the iconic,
1:15.6	just perfect rhythm and blues group. Just insane. I first saw Booker T and the MGs. I mean,
1:25.2	I knew about him of course from the Blues Brothers, but I got to see him live in 93, I believe,
1:33.0	at the shoreline when they were doing a tour as the backing band for Neil Young. And I got to tell you,
1:40.2	I tell him on this episode, I've told many people, there was nothing cooler than seeing Booker T
1:49.0	and the MGs play stuff like cowgirls and the sand, cinnamon girl. I mean, you could go to YouTube
1:58.3	and plug it in and just check it out. It is so fucking cool. Anyway, Steve Cropper, hear it today.
2:09.0	Come on, man. How cool is that? 80 years old, just still killing it. He's got a brand new record
2:19.7	that came out a few months ago. Fire it up. And he got nominated for Grammy. Man, fingers crossed
2:27.6	that he gets it because this record's great. 80 years old nominated for a Grammy. He doesn't get
2:33.2	any cooler than that. What else has happened? Well, if you follow me on Instagram or you are part
2:40.2	of the Dale Razer family, you know what's happened. I'm about to get on a plane and head up to San
2:46.9	Francisco and do something that I've been wanting to do for 40 years and that is open for the greatest
2:55.0	band ever Metallica. I can't even tell you what this means to me. Of course, anybody that knows me
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