David Porter

The interplay of music and race in the Sixties is usually perceived as a one-way street —
white musicians drawing on (or, worse, ripping off) the songs and styles of black artists.
Stax Does the Beatles demonstrates that the influence occasionally ran in the other
direction, to delightful effect. A hotbed of funk intensity, the Memphis-based Stax label
housed a stable of hit-makers who wrote and produced their own material, but... More >