Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at 92.
Stewart died peacefully and surrounded by his family on Monday, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music said in a news release. A cause of death was not disclosed.
Before Stax went bankrupt in 1975, the recording studio in Memphis’ “Soulsville” neighborhood produced lasting hits such as Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay,” Eddie Floyd’s “Knock on Wood,” Sam & Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Comin’ ” and “Soul Man,” and “Green Onions” by Booker T. and the M.G.s. Booker T. and the M.G.s were racially mixed, as were the Memphis Horns, which backed many of the Stax hits.
In 1968, Stewart, Axton and Bell sold Stax to Gulf & Western in exchange for stock. Stewart and Bell repurchased the label in 1970.Little remembered today, Wattstax — ‘the Black Woodstock’ — drew nearly 100,000 fans to the L.A. Coliseum for a day of Black pride and transcendent soul music.
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