Started By Al STewart and Estelle AXton, the combination of their names made the word STAX.
STAX records, any STAX recordings that we could find were played at the Blue Note Club in Manchester.
it specialised in a wide range of mainly black American soul music and with particular emphasis on Stax and Stax Atlantic releases, whereas the Twisted Wheel by 1968/69 was more into Motown soundalikes - the rarer the better.
It was Roger Eagle who started off as the first Blue Note DJ and played sounds such as Grab This Thing by the Mar-Keys and Marching Off To War by William Bell. The Stax sound was underpinned by Booker T and the MG's and for the Blue Note DJ's they were major league, especially Steve Cropper the group's guitarist and song writer for many Stax recording artists.
Original LOGO
Stax - NEW LABEL LOGO
Stax Musicians included:
The Mar-Keys
The Bar - Kays
The Bo Keys - Weblink
Booker T and The MG's