Jim Stewart, who founded what became the Stax Records label and produced some of the great soul records of the 1960s, died Monday at age 92. A cause of death was not released. Stewart co-founded th…
, was started by a white hillbilly fiddler and bank employee named Jim Stewart.”
“I’m a hillbilly at heart,” Stewart said during a rare visit to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music — which sits on the site of the label’s original demolished building — in 2018, asby Mehr. “I grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry. I got to Memphis after I graduated high school, and one day I heard a record by a gentleman named Ray Charles. From that time on, I knew what I had to do. I had to find a way to make music like Ray Charles.
Serendipity thrived amid the multi-racial cast of musicians. Booker T. and the MG’s formed in 1961 as a house band before breaking out with their own hits like “Green Onions.” Out of that abundance, other stars rose. Recalled Isaac Hayes, “I had been to Stax about three different times with a blues band… trying to get a break and was always turned down.
Happily, the building was recreated on the same site — or at least its original facade was — as the Stax Museum of American Soul Music opened in 2003. With tours and a souvenir shop, it became one of Memphis’ prime tourist attractions. But more than that, the label’s legacy lives on with the Stax Music Academy, which began in a nearby school cafeteria in 2000 to serve at-risk children, and was able to move to a new building next door to the museum a few years later.
Stewart produced records after leaving Stax but eventually quit the music business altogether and became somewhat reclusive, only occasionally visiting the new Stax museum. He was greeted as a returning hero when he did.
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