Steve Cropper, RIP

[GA Russell]

Steve Cropper has died at 84.  RIP.

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the MG.'s, has died at age 84

[ep1str0phy]

Damn. Cropper was one of my favorite guitarists in that idiom. His work with Otis Redding and Booker T and the MG's was epochal. I'm struggling to think of a single Stax record that he featured on that I dislike - it's all eminently listenable.

[mikeweil]

Cropper's guitar sound was with me from the first years I started liostening to muisc. A Booker T. & THe M.G.s LP was among my first five LPs I ever bought. Here was a guy opti for a group sound rather than playing ego trips. That was a role model for me, even though I never played a guitar.

R.I.P., and thanks for your great attitude.