Rhett Akins, Jim Beavers, and The Warren Brothers will join the lineup for Bob Kingsley’s Acoustic Alley at Country Radio Seminar 2026, adding more songwriting firepower to one of the event’s ...

The widely influential guitarist Steve Cropper self-effacingly and all too modestly told Guitar Player Magazine in 2024, “My playing has always sucked, but it sells … I keep it simple, I guess. I’m ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, a storied guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped define the Southern soul sound at legendary Memphis music label Stax Records, died on Wednesday in Nashville, ...

Booker T & the MG's guitarist Steve Cropper passed away on December 3, 2025, at the age of 84. The talented musician was a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee who performed onstage with B.B. King, Otis ...

David Porter remembered his longtime Stax Records compatriot Steve Cropper as “a true member of a creative musical family that changed the world of music” in a tribute shared with Rolling Stone.

The rocker also co-wrote classic songs like Otis Redding's "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, ...

Guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve Cropper has died. The musician helped to define what became known as the Memphis Sound as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band at Stax Record ...

Steve Cropper, the smooth, metronomically solid guitarist heard on dozens of soul records with Booker T. and the M.G.’s, has died. He was 84. Cropper died at a rehabilitation facility in Nashville, ...

Steve Cropper, a guitarist whose work was featured on some of the biggest hits of the soul era, has died. Soulsville Foundation President and CEO Pat Mitchell Worley said Cropper's family told her the ...

Steve Cropper, the Booker T. & the MG guitarist, songwriter and producer who was instrumental in the rise of R&B powerhouse Stax Records, died in Nashville at 84. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.