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Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers and Booker T. guitarist, dies at 84

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Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and guitarist for Booker T. & the MG, has passed away. He was 84 years old.

said Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation. Associated Press That Cropper’s family notified him of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.

Worley’s foundation operates out of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, home of Cropper’s former employer, Stax Records.

Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper passed away at the age of 84. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Cropper’s cause of death was not shared. Eddie Gore, Cropper’s longtime friend, said he visited the musician at a rehab center on Tuesday. Gore said he had recently been through a slump and was working with Cropper to produce new music.

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“He’s a very good person. We’re very lucky to have him,” Gore told the press.

“He’s such a good person. We’re absolutely lucky to have him.”

-Eddie Gore

Cropper was a key figure in shaping the Memphis music scene. Cropper’s name appears in Sam & Dave’s 1967 hit “Soul Man.” Sam Moore “Steal it, Steve!” he says. before the guitarist takes him away.

Cropper said in 2020: Associated Press about his career.

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi with Steve Cropper performing background with The Blues Brothers in 1980. (Ebet Roberts/Redferns)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Steve Cropper, founding member of Booker T. & the MG’s and the Blues Brothers Band, performed in 2018. (Getty Images)

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“I listen to the other musicians and the singer. I don’t just listen to myself. I make sure my voice is good before the session starts. After I deliver the song, I listen to the song and the way they interpret it. And I play around with all that. That’s what I do. That’s my style,” Cropper said at the time.

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Al Jackson, Booker T. Jones, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and Steve Cropper of R&B group Booker T & the MGs in 1968. (Getty Images)

Cropper is best known for his time at Booker T. & MG’s. The band consisted of Cropper, keyboardist Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson. They were a racially integrated group, a rarity at the time.

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“There was absolutely no color when you walked through the doors of Stax,” Cropper told the AP in 2020. “We were all there for the same reason: to have a hit record.”