As a member of Stax Records' Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the '60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.

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Steve Cropper, the legendary guitarist who shaped soul music at Stax Records, has died at 84, leaving behind a legacy of ...

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Your browser does not support the audio element. Matt Mitchell is Paste’s music editor, reporting from their home in Los Angeles.

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s ...