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Jim Stewart, who has died aged 92, was the founder of Stax records, the Memphis-based record label that in the 1960s pioneered the development of what became known as Southern Soul, recording and promoting such artists as Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd and Isaac Hayes.
Through the 1960s and 1970s there were two magnetic poles in black American music: in the north, Motown; and in the south, Stax. The contrast could hardly have been more striking.
While Motown’s recordings tended towards up-tempo ... Read more
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