Ray Beadle is joined by his all-star band featuring to pay tribute to Blues artists of the famous STAX label and the release of Ray’s album STAX of BLUES (Winner The 2023 Blues Awards – Album of the Year) (Est. 1957, includes Volt Records and other subsidiary labels) STAX Records is synonymous with Southern soul music.
Originally known as Satellite, the Memphis company was founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and co-owned with his sister, Estelle Axton, and took its new name in 1961 from the first two letters of their last names.
Among the many artists who scored hits on STAX and its Volt subsidiary during the Sixties were Rufus and Carla Thomas, Booker T. & the MGs (an interracial instrumental quartet that also served as the company’s rhythm section and house band), Sam and Dave, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, and Otis Redding. Redding’s death in 1967 signalled the end of the first STAX era (to which Atlantic retains distribution rights). Subsequently the company spawned a new crop of hit-makers, among them Isaac Hayes & the Staple Singers.
Ray Beadle and Band pays tribute to the STAX funk, and blues recording artists Albert King, Little Milton, Johnnie Taylor, Isaac Hayes, The Canes, Bobby Marchan, Sir Mack Rice
ALBUM OF THE YEAR – The 2023 Blues Awards
