Word: stax
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...saying, peering out over his dime-store glasses. For publishers' rights to the song, Vanguard Records gave him $500, plus the promise of a one-third cut in royalties if all goes well. Gus was also offered a recording contract to make an album for Atlantic Records' Stax label...
Down Home. The music came from the same pure stream Gus first tapped while working along the Mississippi levees and bumming around on Beale Street-the honest blues invented by people who had something to be blue about. But success now altered the atmosphere. Stax engineers tried hard to get a bluesy ''down-home" sound, and an English professor named John Quincy Wolf stood by as a consultant on ethnic authenticity. The Voice of America even sent a reporter to Cannon, armed with a tape recorder and an only-in-America enthusiasm: "This could be the start...