{"id":973951,"date":"2019-12-09T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923903"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:00:54","slug":"stax-records-golden-period-explored-in-limited-edition-vinyl-box-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/stax-records-golden-period-explored-in-limited-edition-vinyl-box-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Stax Records\u2019 Golden Period Explored in Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical legacy of legendary soul label <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stax\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stax\" data-tag=\"stax\">Stax<\/a> Records will be explored in a limited edition eight-LP box set from record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vmp-anthology.vinylmeplease.com\/stax?utm_source=youtube&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=anthology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>VMP Anthology: The Story of Stax Record<\/em>s<\/a> features eight albums from the Memphis label\u2019s golden period of 1957 to 1975, with LPs from Otis Redding, Sam &amp; Dave, Booker T and the M.G.\u2019s, Isaac Hayes and more part of the curated collection. Each album in the box set has been pressed onto 180-gram vinyl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/URaVpb7gHKk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>The Story of Stax Records<\/em> follows Vinyl Me, Please\u2019s previous 2019 explorations of Blue Note Records, The Women of Motown and electronic music label Ghostly International. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Like those previous anthologies, <em>The Story of Stax Records<\/em> will be accompanied by a six-part exclusive podcast about the history of Stax Records and the records in the anthology; the podcast features interviews with Booker T. Jones, William Bell, Steve Cropper and journalist Robert Gordon, who also wrote the box set\u2019s extensive liner notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">VMP Editorial Director and Stax podcast host Andrew Winistorfer said in a statement: \u201cStax Records altered the history of American music, and created an entire generation of new superstars from a tiny theater on E. McLemore St. in Memphis, and getting to work with their incredible catalog to create this anthology box set has been a real honor for us. It almost felt like an inevitablity for us to do this: After our Blue Note and Motown anthologies, the most requested box set we\u2019ve had is for us to do one on Stax, since we have a track record with doing amazing work with the Stax catalog for various Records of the Month in our past. These eight albums, in their own small way, chart the voyage of Stax Records from a label based in a garage to arguably the most important soul label of all time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Stax box set, limited to 1,000 copies, is available to order now through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vinylmeplease.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vinyl Me, Please\u2019s site<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-923904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/VMPL8953.jpg?w=1024\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stax-records-vinyl-me-please-923903\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musical legacy of legendary soul label Stax Records will be explored in a limited edition eight-LP box set from record subscription service Vinyl Me, Please. VMP Anthology: The Story of Stax Records features eight albums from the Memphis label\u2019s golden period of 1957 to 1975, with LPs from Otis Redding, Sam &amp; Dave, Booker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:10:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}