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Stax Country:

11 November 2024 By in Music Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

The words Stax and country, seldom found in the vicinity of each other, come together for an emotional tour de force of soulful ballads, evoking the passions of love, heartache, and life like an old photo album that chronicles a simpler, happier time.

Jared Boyd, writing for Stax, comments that “Stax Country illuminates these varied voices along a Venn diagram of soul and country, underscoring the label’s ambition to break new ground… This compilation is a testament to Stax’s pioneering spirit and support for musical diversity, highlighting an era when soulful storytelling found common ground with country’s honesty and zeal.“

Originally released in 2017, the album was remastered and reissued in October 2024 with sound quality as crisp and clear as a nightingale’s melody waking you on a Saturday morning. Stax excellence shines through in this compilation of lost gems.

Source: Stax. Graphic: Album Cover with Sweet Country Music by Becki Bluefield.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – South of Here

19 August 2024 By in Music, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Rateliff’s soulful story telling lyrics just get better and better with the release of his 4th studio album in June of this year by the Memphis soul machine label: Stax.

His songs take on a more personal note, encouraged by the album’s producer, Brad Cook, but manage to keep what Jim Shahen of ‘The Journal of Roots Music’ calls a ‘gritty rock ‘n’ soul’ sound that is the backbone of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats’.

Mojo comments that the 11 album tracks are ‘Deep, rewarding songs, rich in authorly detail, which, not for the first time, position Rateliff, still only 45, as a new Springsteen.’

Source: South of Here Review by Mojo, 2024.  Album Review: Nathaniel Rateliff…by Jim Shahen, 2024, Journal of Roots Music. Graphic: Album Cover STAX copyright.