February is Black History Month. Throughout this month we will showcase a prominent figure in Black History. Sam & Dave’s ...

Stevenson was the band's drummer and a main force in siring the debut record. Not only did he co-write five of the dozen ...

Along with labelmate Otis Redding, Sam & Dave were show ... then “loaned” out to Stax to produce, record and release their records. The pair’s November 1965 single, “You Don’t Know ...

Seated behind his organ at Stax Records’ recording studio in Memphis ... Jones played on soul landmarks by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas and especially Sam & Dave.

Moore — who with his late partner Dave Prater cut some of the best-known records of the genre ... the legendary Memphis-based Stax Records, alongside stars like Otis Redding and collaborators ...

Sam Moore, half of the hit-making 1960s soul duo Sam & Dave, died Friday, according to news reports. The duo was behind the chart-topping hits “Soul Man,” “Hold on, I’m Comin' and ”I Thank You." ...

At the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, Moore and Prater were second only to Otis Redding. They transformed the "call and response" of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded ...