I don't really know the secret of how guitarists create their own unique sounds,” Rodgers tells us, “but I know a good guitar ...

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Steve Cropper, the Rock Hall-inducted guitarist who helped form the sound of "Memphis soul" with Stax Records, has died at ...

As a member of Stax Records' Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the '60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.

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