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“My playing has always sucked, but it sells,” Steve Cropper told Total Guitar in 2024. “I keep it simple, I guess. I'm not a guitar player. I never took the time.” Cropper — the electric guitar legend ...

Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s. Steve Cropper in 1973. His guitar licks could ...

Steve Cropper, the Rock & Rock Hall of Fame guitarist, singer and producer who helped define the “Memphis soul” sound with Stax Records during the 1960s and ‘70s, died Wednesday. He was 84. Cropper, ...

Born in Missouri in 1941 and raised in Memphis from childhood, Steve Cropper picked up the guitar at 14, drawn to gospel, R&B and early rock and roll. In 1961, at just 20 years old, he joined the ...