Stax Records founder Jim Stewart, who helped produce the 'Memphis sound,' is dead at 92

Stax Records founder Jim Stewart, who helped produce the 'Memphis sound,' is dead at 92

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Rest in Peace "It's one of the strange twists of history that the greatest, funkiest soul label in the world, one of the most powerful outlets for Black expression, was started by a white hillbilly fiddler named Jim Stewart," Bob Mehr writes at The Memphis Commercial Appeal. Stewart, the founder…

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