Artist:
Review:
The interplay of music and race in the Sixties is usually perceived
as a one-way street — white musicians drawing on (or, worse,
ripping off) the songs and styles of black artists. Stax Does
the Beatles demonstrates that the influence occasionally ran
in the other direction, to delightful effect.
A hotbed of funk intensity, the Memphis-based Stax label housed
a stable of hit-makers who wrote and produced their own material,
but were also keen interpreters. In the Beatles, artists…

Rating:
3.5 Stars