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Jim Stewart, Unlikely Entrepreneur of Soul Music, Dies at 92

The New York Times – Music:

His background was in country music. But Stax, the label he founded with his sister, achieved a level of success with Black artists that rivaled Motown’s.

Bill Friskics-Warren
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Black People, Deaths (Obituaries), Memphis (Tenn), Nineteen Hundred Sixties, Rhythm and Blues (Music), Stax Records, Stewart, Jim (1930-2022)
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