Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. &
the MG’s guitarist, has died.
Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville
Foundation, told the Associated Press that Cropper’s family
notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.
Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer,
Stax Records, used to be.
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 at a rehabilitation center on Tuesday.
Gore said that he suffered a recent fall and was working with
Cropper on producing new music.
Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.
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