Affiliated with Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and Big Star, the recording engineer and producer was also a noted photographer.

To say that Stax Records was a successful music label would ... and willpower that happened at the moment that Mr. Al Bell enters the picture, and he just, come hell or high water won't be stopped.

Jones and drummer Al Jackson Jr.). It became the first STAX hit, though it appeared on the short-lived offshoot Satellite Records. “That was the end of country for me,” says Mr. Stewart.

But next door, trumpets blare, drums boom, and singers craft the soulful sounds of Stax Records’ biggest hits ... and the MGs ...