Steve Cropper has stayed true to himself for over seven decades, thanks in no small part to advice from Stax founder Jim Stewart. "He said, 'Just play yourself and if they don't like it, they'll tell you,'" Cropper tells GRAMMY.com. "SoI've been playing myself all my life and it...
Chinese automakers’ main challenge is reaching the majority of European consumers who don’t know they exist. That gives legacy carmakers more time to stave off the threat of Chinese exports, said Phil Dunne, a managing director at strategy consultancy Stax. “But the Chinese are fast learners...
Steve Cropper has stayed true to himself for over seven decades, thanks in no small part to advice from Stax founder Jim Stewart. "He said, 'Just play yourself and if they don't like it, they'll tell you,'" Cropper tells GRAMMY.com. "So I've been playing myself all my l...
As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them. The bottom line is that credit card processors give you better rates when your processing volume increases. If your company is just shy of hitting the next tier to be eligible for lower rates, it could be worth encouraging cus...
Carey’sDaydreamhad failed to win the category, or indeed any of the five others it was nominated for, in 1996.Falling Into You, which was additionally crowned Best Pop Album at the same 1997 ceremony, even beat another Houston-heavy soundtrack,Waiting to Exhale, to the glittering prize. ...
With a stomping beat (actually a tape loop slowed down from another song on the same album), "Don't Bring Me Down" sounded like a decade coming to a close. Tom Petty, Dont Do Me Like That (1979) Backstreet Tom Petty, "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979) Originally composed after ...
just goingboom. I’m great friends withBootsy Collinsand we’ve been making a lot of music together in the last year. We talk about “the one” and he talks aboutJames Browntalking about the one. Most dance records are on the backbeat, likeMichael Jackson-- or any dance record, really...
One of Stax's reliable hitmakers was a close friend of Cropper's: Otis Redding. The two shared a deep musical bond and some shared history. Both musicians grew up on farms ("By the time I was 14, I was ready to leave the home. By the time I was ...
just goingboom. I’m great friends withBootsy Collinsand we’ve been making a lot of music together in the last year. We talk about “the one” and he talks aboutJames Browntalking about the one. Most dance records are on the backbeat, likeMichael Jackson-- or any dance record, really...
As tight as Charlie's drum skins,Emotional Rescueshowed the fellas putting the screws to their sound in the midst of the Stones' last era of brilliance (1978-81). Watts is on fire throughout the record, whether holding down the beat for the slinky "Dance (Pt. 1)" or letting loose sn...