Here's the 72nd Mix for F.S.V.B, Its been Mixed by Musicology, there's some classic Soul and Funk Music Tracks on here, From the Great Stax Record Label, Its called The Soul of Stax Records Volume 3!
Its features Isaac Hayes, Dramatics, Sam and Dave, Staple Singers, Carla Thomas and The Temprees, to name but a Few!
Check Out Web Page For Track Listing and Download.
STAX RECORDS One of the Better Record Labels STAX started life as Satellite Records back in 1957 by a Brother and Sister Team, by the Names of Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, they were White and from Memphis!
In 1961 they Discovered somebody else was already using the Name of Satellite so they Decided to Combine the First Two Letters of their Surnames, Stewart and Axton, and came up with..... Stax.
They wanted the Music on the Label to be a Mix of the Southern and Memphis Soul Styles!
In them Days, all Record Labels had their Own House Band, as well as doing their Own Music, they use to Play on other Artists Recordings (on the label) and Stax was no different, their band was the Great "Booker T and the Mg's"
In 1968 a New Co-Owner came into Stax, it was Al Bell he was a Record Producer, Song-Writer and Record Executive, he was Credited with Helping the likes of Isaac Hayes, Staples Singers, Dramatics and Mel and Tim become Big Recording Artists.
Later in his Life he would become President of Motown Records!
In 1972 Stax organised one of the Biggest Musical Events in History, with"Wattstax" over 100,000 attended, it was a Memorial to the People who had Died in the Riots, in the Watts District of L.A. seven years Previously.
But by 1975 things started going wrong for "STAX" and the Company went Bankrupt.
In 1977, Fantasy Records brought "STAX" back Catologue, and by 1978 started Signing New Acts and Recording New Material, but this did not last too long, by 1980 all this had Finished and they started to Re-Issuing some of the Old Recordings again!
