This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Steve Cropper, the guitarist whose influential work for Stax Records in Memphis helped define soul music in the 1960s and '70s died Wednesday in Nashville. He ...

The rocker also co-wrote classic songs like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, ...

Cropper also co-wrote classics like "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" Steve Cropper, the guitarist, songwriter and producer who made his mark with bands like the Blues Brothers and Booker T. and the ...

Guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve Cropper has died. The musician helped to define what became known as the Memphis Sound as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band at Stax Record ...

Steve Cropper, the smooth, metronomically solid guitarist heard on dozens of soul records with Booker T. and the M.G.’s, has died. He was 84. Cropper died at a rehabilitation facility in Nashville, ...

“Play it, Steve,” Sam Moore chants during the chorus of 1967’s “Soul Man,” and it’s no mystery why. “Play it, Steve,” Sam Moore chants during the chorus of 1967’s “Soul Man,” and it’s no mystery why.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics ...