Key West Songwriters Event with Guitar Legend Steve Cropper
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Key West Songwriters Event with Guitar Legend Steve Cropper
The Green Parrot’s Key West Songwriter Festival shows have become one of the Festivals not-to-be-missed events
Stax Records Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper
As well as being a Stax Records house-band alumni and a member of The original Blues Brothers, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Cropper 39th on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time and went on to call Cropper, “the secret ingredient in some of the greatest rock and soul songs; he went on to spend most of the Sixties with Booker T. and The M.G.s at Stax, playing on hits by Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett, to name a few.
Since then, his spare, soulful playing has appeared on records by dozens of rock and R&B artists, including the Blues Brothers’ band. Think of the introduction to Sam and Dave’s “Soul Man,” the explosive bent notes in Booker T.’s “Green Onions” or the filigreed guitar fills in Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” – they all bear Cropper’s signature sound, the quintessence of soul guitar.
