We can barely express how excited we are to see Stax Records icon Steve Cropper come to town for not one, but two shows: One at Club Congress downtown on Friday and the other at Hacienda Del Sol on Saturday night.
Cropper will be performing as part of a Jonny Rosch show, a superb talent in his own right, but spent years as the guitarist with the Stax Records house band, a studio group that included Booker T. Jones and Donald "Duck" Dunn. Those session musicians eventually evolved into Booker T. & the MGs.
As a Stax musician and producer, Cropper helped to develop the Southern soul sound, playing for artists from Otis Redding and Sam & Dave to Carla Thomas and Rufus Thomas.
He co-wrote a number of timeless hits, including "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," "Knock on Wood," and "In the Midnight Hour."
The Rosch band also will include:
Jimmy Fox – Drums (Founder and drummer of The James Gang, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Walsh, Stephen Stills, and many others)
Jeff Pevar – Guitar (Ray Charles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Joe Cocker, Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Jimmy Webb, etc.)
Sue Williams – Bass (Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Williams, Joe Walsh, Darlene Love, Ben E King, Robert Palmer, etc.)
Rosch and Friends will play at Congress at 7 p.m. on Friday. They perform at 8 p.m. at Hacienda.
