Heres Steve Cropper playing in front of Barack Obama at the White House last year as Justin Timberlake performs (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay, the song Cropper co-wrote with Otis Redding. Dont miss the opportunity to see Stax, Booker T and the MGs and Blues Brothers guitar legend Steve Cropper at the Crypt with Animals and Friends in two weeks time on Sunday 2nd November. Tickets available from the Box Office on 01642 729729 or book online at middlesbroughtownhallonline.co.uk/whats-on/animals-and-friends-2404 If Yankee Stadium is “the house that Babe Ruth built,” Stax Records is “the house that Booker T, and the MG’s built.” Integral to that potent combination is MG rhythm guitarist extraordinaire Steve Cropper. A much anticipated new solo album from Cropper has been recorded, with a band that includes such stellar players as SPOONER OLDHAM, ROGER HOOD, STEVE FERRONE, STEVE JORDAN, JON TIVEN & NEAL SUGARMAN. With basic tracks recorded at DAN PENN’s studio, guests on the album include LUCINDA WILLIAMS and KEB MO. With the immaculate taste you might expect, Cropper and co-producer Tiven have selected songs from BETTYE LAVETTE, BUDDY MILLER, B.B.KING, BRIAN MAY and LUCINDA WILLIAMS. As a guitarist, A & R man, engineer, producer, song writing partner of Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd and a dozen others and founding member of both Booker T. and the MG’s (‘Green Onions’, ‘Soul Limbo’ – frequently played every Summer in the UK to open cricket TV coverage – ‘Time Is Tight’, etc) and The Mar-Keys, Cropper was literally involved in virtually every record issued by Stax from the autumn of 1961 through year end 1970. Such credits assure Cropper of an honoured place in the soul music hall of fame. As co-writer of ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay’, ‘Knock on Wood’ and ‘In the Midnight Hour’, Cropper is in line for immortality. In 1977 Cropper received a call from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd which resulted in the formation of the Blues Brothers Band, who recorded three albums and made the hilarious eponymously-titled movie. Perhaps the ultimate testament to Steve Cropper’s immense contribution to popular music over the last four decades though, was his ranking by Mojo Magazine in 1996 as the number two guitarist of all-time (Jimi Hendrix was number one). And in 2003, Rolling Stone magazine readers voted him among the Top 100 Guitar Players of all-time.
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