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JIM STEWART, CO-FOUNDER of R&B label Stax and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, died on Monday, longtime staff Stax songwriter David Porter confirmed on Monday. Stewart was 92.
“No way a poor kid from a housing project’s picture in Memphis would be on a bus rolling through Memphis if it were not for this man, JIM STEWART the ST of the word Stax,” Porter wrote in a social media caption with a photo of the Stax Museum bus (the museum is located at the original location of Stax Records). “I love and acknowledge him and his memory. RIP my dear benefactor to American Soul music.”
Stewart was born on July 29, 1930, in Middleton, Tennessee. In 1957, he co-founded Satellite Records, which would later be known as Stax Records, after persuading his sister, Estelle Axton, to take out a second mortgage on her home and join him.
The record label and recording studio on McLemore Avenue in South Memphis would become a sanctuary to a new generation of Memphis R&B hitmakers spanning from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Booker T & the MGs, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd, and more helped the label soar……..
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“No way a poor kid from a housing project’s picture in Memphis would be on a bus rolling through Memphis if it were not for this man, JIM STEWART the ST of the word Stax,” Porter wrote in a social media caption with a photo of the Stax Museum bus (the museum is located at the original location of Stax Records). “I love and acknowledge him and his memory. RIP my dear benefactor to American Soul music.”
Stewart was born on July 29, 1930, in Middleton, Tennessee. In 1957, he co-founded Satellite Records, which would later be known as Stax Records, after persuading his sister, Estelle Axton, to take out a second mortgage on her home and join him.
The record label and recording studio on McLemore Avenue in South Memphis would become a sanctuary to a new generation of Memphis R&B hitmakers spanning from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Booker T & the MGs, Sam & Dave, Eddie Floyd, and more helped the label soar……..
Jim Stewart, Stax Records Co-Founder, Dead at 92
“As producer, engineer, businessman and mentor, Jim Stewart was at the center of it all”
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