Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper
Steven Lee Cropper is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. He also acted as the producer of many of these records. He was later a member of the Blues Brothers band. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on its list of the 100 greatest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth21 October 1941
CityDora, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I am a very lucky guy. I've had a great career and I still get to do it and get to hang out with all these wonderful people. It's just a blast.
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
They had been doing their Jake and Elwood Blues thing as a warm-up for the audience before the show, and the audiences loved it.
Anyone who knew Wilson had to deal with both sides.
I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own.
I went from the really crude way we had of recording in Memphis to working with the top engineers and technologies in Los Angeles.
That record opened us up to a different way of musical thinking. We used that beat on a whole lot of records.
I'm totally in support of having single-family occupancy here in Oak Hill. I'm still trying to understand the rest of this.
I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.