Steve Cropper, the iconic and influential guitarist who defined Memphis soul with Booker T. & The MG’s, played on many Stax Records hits and with The Blues Brothers band, died Wednesday in Nashville.
Steve Cropper in 1967: later that year he wrote and recorded (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay with Otis Redding, who was killed in a plane crash shortly afterwards - Don Paulsen/Michael Ochs ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, influential guitarist and member of Stax Records’ Booker T and the MGs, has died at age 84.