Steve Cropper talks about recording The Memphis Album on AllMemphisMusic

Steve Cropper: "Hi this is Steve Cropper, guitar player with Booker T & The Mgs. I just want to say it’s great to be here on AllMemphisMusic.com radio show. You know recently I had the pleasure of bringing in an Australian Idol winner. I brought him to Memphis. He wanted to do a Memphis tribute album, and we brought him down to Ardent Studios. Needless to say I’ve done a lot of things in my career, had a lot of fun, but we had more fun working with this young guy who just sings the rings around everything. You know there’s a lot of great singers out there today, a lot of them extremely talented. You never quite know where they learned, or where they’re coming from, or what their musical tastes are, but this kid came into Memphis, and just blew everybody’s socks off. He had the grit and the grime and the soul of Otis Redding, and he had the sweet soul of Al Green, he had the wonderful sweet church sound of Sam Cooke. He just took us by storm, and it was like every song we did, we just looked at each other and like all said we can’t believe this kid can sing this good. His name is Guy Sebastian, and we are going to be playing some of his music today. We hope you like it, and I was fortunate enough to play guitar on it, and produce the record. I brought up my good buddy Donald Duck Dunn up from Florida, and we had our drummer Steve Potts who plays with us The Blues Brothers and Booker T & The Mgs, and the one and only Lester Snell from Memphis Tennessee who played with Isaac Hayes, and played with everybody on keyboards. And we just had, just had a ball. That’s all I can say. So it’s a pleasure to be here on AllMemphisMusic radio."

Steve Cropper talks about recording The Memphis Album on AllMemphisMusic