the MGs, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor ... Knowing what music can do for children, the Stax Music Academy was founded in 2000, before the museum opened in May 2003. The Stax Music Academy is ...

By Paul Grein Stax: Soulsville U.S.A., Will and Harper ... Other artists signed to the label in its glory years include Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd and ...

His final album for Stax Records, ‘Crown Prince Of Dance’ proved that Rufus Thomas could still claim ... He’s been doing this since before there was soul music, before there was rock ...

Other mainstays of the Stax catalog include Booker T. and the MGs, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett and Johnnie Taylor. Before it went bankrupt in 1975, Stax Records helped develop the raw ...

in January of 1950, opening his doors and heart to black artists in the segregated south, recording blues and soul greats such as Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, Rufus Thomas and Bobby Blue ... “Sun and Stax ...

The highlights of my two-day trip were chatting with proud locals and exploring two monumental and moving museums: the Stax Museum ... Carla Thomas’ glam gowns and her father Rufus’ cape.

Rufus Thomas, R&B, funk, and soul singer, died of heart failure in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 84. He recorded for several labels, including Chess Records and Sun Records in the 1950s, before becoming ...

So I have to do all the bird research on that end before ... Rufus Thomas, and the Staple Singers. And many of the people on these walls combine different styles of music to create that Stax ...

Born in 1937 in Cardiff, Wales, she began her career as a nightclub singer before ... Carla Thomas, known as the “Queen of Memphis Soul,” was a defining voice of the Stax Records sound.

Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. documents far too many goosebumps-inducing moments to count: There’s a teenage Carla Thomas writing her first song in mere minutes (and singing sans her father, Rufus ...