Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music

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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter And A Shaper Of Memphis Soul Music

By The New York Times

Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis’s Stax Records in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Wednesday in Nashville. He was 84. His death, at a rehab ...Read more