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
Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.