Coverage dated December 5, 2022

Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies

Headline from Omaha World-Herald

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful

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  1. NPR

    Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies at age 92 (opens NPR)

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    The white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player co-founded the influential record label with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful "Memphis sound."

  2. Omaha World-Herald

    Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies (opens Omaha World-Herald)

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    Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful

  3. The Guardian

    Jim Stewart, founder of Stax Records, dies aged 92 (opens The Guardian)

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    Record producer signed many of soul and R&B’s most influential musicians, including Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes

  4. Los Angeles Times

    Jim Stewart, co-founder of Memphis' famed Stax Record, dies at 92 (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Stax Records co-founder helped build the soulful 'Memphis sound' embodied by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers.

  5. Local Memphis

    Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies at 92 (opens Local Memphis)

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    The longtime Memphis resident founded Satellite Records, which was later known as Stax, in the late 1950s.

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