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
I'm totally in support of having single-family occupancy here in Oak Hill. I'm still trying to understand the rest of this.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
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.
That record opened us up to a different way of musical thinking. We used that beat on a whole lot of records.
I started getting calls to do sessions as a guitarist. I never thought I was that good of a guitarist, though I knew I could hold my own.
I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.
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 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.
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.