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Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. & the MG’s guitarist, has died.<\/a> He was 84.<\/p>\n

Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, told the Associated Press<\/a> that Cropper’s family notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.<\/p>\n

Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer, Stax Records, used to be.<\/p>\n

A cause of death for Cropper has not been shared. Eddie Gore, a longtime friend of Cropper, told the outlet that he visited the musician<\/a> at a rehabilitation center on Tuesday. Gore said that he suffered a recent fall and was working with Cropper on producing new music.<\/p>\n

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“He\u2019s such a good human. We were blessed to have him, for sure,” Gore told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Cropper was a key figure in shaping the Memphis music scene<\/a>. Cropper’s name is featured in Sam & Dave’s 1967 hit “Soul Man.” Sam Moore says “Play it, Steve!” before the guitarist takes it away.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Cropper spoke to the Associated Press<\/a> about his career.<\/p>\n

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“I listen to the other musicians and the singer. I\u2019m not listening to just me. I make sure I\u2019m sounding OK before we start the session. Once we\u2019ve presented the song, then I listen to the song and the way they interpret it. And I play around all that stuff. That\u2019s what I do. That\u2019s my style,” Cropper said at the time.<\/p>\n

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Cropper is most known for his time in Booker T. & the MG’s. The band consisted of Cropper, keyboard player Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Al Jackson. They were a racially integrated band, which was rare for the time.<\/p>\n

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“When you walked in the door at Stax, there was absolutely no color. We were all there for the same reason \u2014 to get a hit record,” Cropper told AP in 2020.<\/p>\n

Cropper was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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