When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist best known for his ...

IT was the kind of image that flicks across the television late at night, when the music channels loosen up their playlists and offer glimpses of the future. The video showed a young woman in a comfy ...

Back in the ‘60s in Memphis, I listened to and played a lot of Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Booker T. and The M.G.’s, Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett. We used to call it “soul music.” ...

Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist with Booker T. & the MG’s, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died at the age of 84. The musician's death was confirmed to Variety by his son, Cameron. Cropper ...

When he met and married his soul mate, BOCA, the guitar maverick who pioneered two imaginative techniques for playing the six-stringed instrument Sweep Picking Technique and Gambale Tuning had finally ...

As he entered the studio in the spring of 1985 to lay down the tracks for his third studio album, Soul to Soul, Stevie Ray Vaughan seemed destined for guitar-legend status — if his growing problems ...

Few who saw "The Blues Brothers" movie in 1980 and the musical comedy classic's countless airings on television since could hardly forget Matt "Guitar" Murphy's contribution. The famed blues guitarist ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: David Reed Archive Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist with Booker T. & the MG’s, the ...