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
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.
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.