STACKS OF STAX

Little Milton: Packed Up and Took My MindFrom Stax: The Soul of Hip-Hop (Stax, 2009)Over the last couple of years, I've noticed that Stax Records has been finding new ways to package their back catalog. For example, there's the Soulsville Sings Hitsville comp as well as the Stax Does the Beatles album. The most recent offering takes a page from Blue Note's older, successful Break Beats series by combing through the Stax catalog and pulling out 14 songs that have found second life as hip-hop samp...

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