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
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.
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.
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 believe in technology going forward. I do like to work with an engineer, but I know how to run Pro Tools, and I have a system in my own studio.
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.
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.