stax Archive

27 May 2009

Album Review: Various Artists — Stax Does the Beatles

Before succumbing to the vicissitudes of the record biz, Stax Records was one of the coolest labels in the 60s and 70s. Rawer and earthier than Motown, the black-oriented label […]

22 May 2009

DVD Review: Otis Redding — Respect Live 1967

By Bill Kopp

dvd, r&b, reissue, review, soul

This brief DVD is an effort to collect all extant performance footage of Otis Redding in the months before his untimely death. On that level, it succeeds, more or less. […]

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