The Stax Records Soul Sound

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The small Memphis label Stax Records created soul hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Rufus and Carla Thomas, and others. It's the subject of a new documentary on MAX. We're featuring interviews with musicians who were a big part of the Stax sound: Guitarist, songwriter, and producer Steve Cropper tells us about becoming part of the house rhythm section, and going on to help write hits for Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. Keyboardist Booker T. Jones remembers being pulled out of class in high school to go play music at Stax. And Issac Hayes tells us about writing the classic hit "Soul Man."

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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:10.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be
0:14.8	singular and I will say but it is.
0:17.5	The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:24.0	This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bien Cooley. Stax Records produce some of the most important
0:29.0	southern soul music of the
0:35.0	music by such performers as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T and the MGs,
0:37.6	Isaac Hayes, and the Staple Singers.
0:40.0	Here are some examples of the stacks sound. Don't you, be sad.
0:55.0	Me on me in time of me.
0:59.0	But the day comes and is a down and I'll hear a bubble and I'm about to drown.
1:09.0	There's no one on, I'm coming.
1:13.0	Oh, I'm coming.
1:15.0	I'm coming.
1:18.0	I'm on my way.
1:20.0	Your love.
1:22.0	You know the night time.
1:25.0	Yeah, yeah, it's the right time to be with the one you love.
1:31.0	With the one you love, you tell them color
1:35.0	tell them color. Baby.
1:37.0	I said tell them come.
1:41.0	I said tell them come.
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