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Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart dies at age 92 : NPR

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Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart dies at age 92 : NPR

Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart (center) poses for a photo with friends and students of the Stax Music Academy on April 29, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. Stewart died Monday at age 92. Adrian Sainz/AP hide […]

Jim Stewart, co-founder of Memphis’ famed Stax Record, dies at 92

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Memphis' famed Stax Record, dies at 92

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at […]