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“Le Blues De Memphis” - Behind the scenes at STAX & FAME Recording Studios (1969)

“Le Blues de Memphis” is an incredibly cool 11-minute video tour of two iconic music studios. Made for French television forty-some years ago, it starts off at a Brook Benton session in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and then (after a quick stop at Elvis Presley’s Graceland) takes us behind the scenes at Stax Records—where Booker T. and the MGs are recording “Time Is Tight” and a slicker-than-silk, saxophone-playing Isaac Hayes is putting the studio’s horn section through its paces.

Sam & Dave - When Something is Wrong with My Baby

fucking incredible. one of the top 3 soul performances i’ve seen.

from the Stax/Volt ‘67 tour of Europe, featuring the M.G.’s as the backing band and Otis Redding as the headliner. (true story: after the tour’s conclusion, Redding refused to follow Sam & Dave again—not wanting to compete with that kind of energy)

P.S. 2010 stuff soon. obviously.

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