Marquée par sa rupture avec Atlantic et l’assassinat de Martin Luther King, 1968 était une année charnière pour Stax Records.
50 ans plus tard, le coffret Stax ’68 : A Memphis Story réunit tous les singles (faces A et faces B) publiés au cours de l’année 1968 par Stax dans un coffret 5-CDs incluant 120 titres d’Otis Redding, The Staple Singers, William Bell, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Carla Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Isaac Hayes, Linda Lindell, Rufus Thomas et bien d’autres…
Cette anthologie contient également un livret de 56 pages illustré de photos rares extraites des archives de Stax et rédigé par l’historien de Memphis Andria Lisle, le spécialiste de Stax Records Robert Gordon et le producteur Steve Greenberg.
Sortie le 19 octobre en coffret 5-CDs et version digitale (tracklisting ci-dessous).
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1 Otis Redding Dock Of The Bay
2 Otis Redding Sweet Lorene
3 Sam & Dave I Thank You
4 Sam & Dave Wrap It Up
5 Memphis Nomads Don’t Pass Your Judgement
6 Memphis Nomads I Wanna Be (Your Lover & Your Honey)
7 Shirley Walton I Was Born To Love You
8 Shirley Walton I’m So Glad You’re Back
9 Otis Redding & Carla Thomas Lovey Dovey
10 Otis Redding & Carla Thomas New Year’s Resolution
11 Ollie & the Nightingales I Got a Sure Thing
12 Ollie & the Nightingales You Have My Heart Singing
13 Eddie Floyd Big Bird
14 Eddie Floyd Holding On With Both Hands
15 Bar-Kays A Hard Day’s Night
16 Bar-Kays I Want Someone
17 Johnnie Taylor Next Time
18 Johnnie Taylor Sundown
19 William Bell Every Man Oughta Have a Woman
20 William Bell Tribute To A King
21 Mable John Able Mable
22 Mable John Don’t Get Caught
23 Rufus Thomas Memphis Train
24 Rufus Thomas I Think I Made A Boo Boo
25 Jeanne & the Darlings What Will Later On Be Like
26 Jeanne & the Darlings Hang Me Now
Disc 2
1 Derek Martin Soul Power
2 Derek Martin Sly Girl
3 Linda Lyndell Bring Your Love Back to Me
4 Linda Lyndell Here I Am
5 Carla Thomas A Dime a Dozen
6 Carla Thomas I Want You Back
7 Kangaroo’s Groovy Day
8 Kangaroo’s Every man Needs a Woman
9 Isaac Hayes Precious Precious
10 Isaac Hayes Going to Chicago Blues
11 Mad Lads Whatever Hurts You
12 Mad Lads No Time is Better Than Now
13 Otis Redding The Happy Song (Dum Dum)
14 Otis Redding Open the Door
15 Albert King I Love Lucy
16 Albert King You’re Gonna Need Me
17 Johnnie Taylor I Ain’t Particular
18 Johnnie Taylor Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire
19 Eddie Henderson Quintet Georgy Girl
20 Eddie Henderson Quintet A Million Times or More
21 Shirley Walton Send Peace and Harmony Home
22 Shirley Walton The One You Can’t Have All By Yourself
Disc 3
1 Booker T. & The MG’s Soul Limbo
2 Booker T. & The MG’s Heads or Tails
3 Eddie Floyd I Never Found a Girl (to Love Me Like You Do)
4 Eddie Floyd I’m Just The Kind Of Fool
5 Delaney & Bonnie It’s Been a Long Time Coming
6 Delaney & Bonnie We Just Been Feeling Bad
7 Linda Lyndell What a Man
8 Linda Lyndell I Don’t Know
9 Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds Broadway Freeze
10 Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds I Can’t Cry No More
11 Johnny Daye Stay Baby Stay
12 Johnny Daye I Love Love
13 Bobby Whitlock Raspberry Rug
14 Bobby Whitlock And I Love You
15 Judy Clay & William Bell Private Number
16 Judy Clay & William Bell Love Eye-Tis
17 Jimmy Hughes I Like Everything About You
18 Jimmy Hughes What Side of the Door
19 The-Del Rays Lollipop Lady
20 The Del-Rays (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
21 Lindell Hill Remone
22 Lindell Hill Used To Be Love
23 The Aardvarks Subconscious Train Of Though
24 The Aardvarks Unicorn Man
25 Fresh Air Somebody Stole My Gal
26 Fresh Air Somebody Stole My Gal (instr.)
Disc 4
1 Judy Clay Bed of Roses
2 Judy Clay Remove the Clouds
3 Staple Singers Long Walk To DC
4 Staple Singers Stay With Us
5 Soul Children Give ‘Em Love
6 Soul Children Move Over
7 Johnnie Taylor Who’s Making Love
8 Johnnie Taylor I’m Trying
9 Rufus Thomas Funky Mississippi
10 Rufus Thomas So Hard to Get Along With
11 Carla Thomas Where Do I Go
12 Carla Thomas I’ve Fallen in Love with You
13 Mad Lads So Nice
14 Mad Lads Make Room
15 Charmels Lovin’ Feeling
16 Charmels Sea Shell
17 Jeanne & the Darlings It’s Unbelievable
18 Jeanne & the Darlings I Like What You’re Doing to Me
19 Southwest F.O.B. Smell Of Incense
20 Southwest F.O.B. Green Skies
21 The Village Sound Sally’s Got a Good Thing
22 The Village Sound The La La Song
23 Eddie Floyd Bring it On Home to Me
24 Eddie Floyd Sweet Things You Do
25 Booker T. & The MG’s Hang ‘Em High
26 Booker T. & The MG’s Over Easy
27 Ollie & the Nightingales You’re Leaving Me
28 Ollie & the Nightingales Showered with Love
29 The Popcorn Generation Kitchy Kitchy Koo
30 The Popcorn Generation Shake It
Disc 5
1 Bar-Kays Copy Kat
2 Bar-Kays In the Hole
3 Dino And Doc Mighty Cold Winter
4 Dino And Doc A Woman Can’t Do (What a Man Can Do)
5 William Bell I Forgot to Be Your Lover
6 William Bell Bring the Curtain Down
7 Goodees Condition Red
8 Goodees Didn’t Know Love Was So Good
9 Mable John Running Out
10 Mable John Shouldn’t I Love Him
11 Billy Lee Riley Family Portrait
12 Billy Lee Riley Going Back to Memphis
13 Judy Clay & William Bell My Baby Specializes
14 Judy Clay & William Bell Left Over Love
15 Soul Children I’ll Understand
16 Soul Children Doing Our Thing
17 Staple Singers The Ghetto
18 Staple Singers Got to Be Some Changes Made
19 Albert King Blues Power
20 Albert King Night Stomp
21 The Epsilons The Echo
22 The Epsilons Really Rockin’
23 Rufus Thomas Funky Way
24 Rufus Thomas I Want to Hold You
25 The Generation The Children Have Your Tongue
26 The Generation Give Her What She Wants
27 Daaron Lee Who’s Making Love
28 Daaron Lee Long Black Train
29 Johnnie Taylor Take Care Of Your Homework
30 Johnnie Taylor Hold On This Time
