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Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

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Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the guitarist and producer Steve Cropper sit on folding chairs at Stax Records in Memphis as they composed “(Sittin’ on) The …

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