The Concord Music Group has been re-issuing classic albums from the extensive catalogue of the Stax label. Their latest three releases, due September 13, are Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get by The ...

Memphis music pioneer and Mississippi native Rufus Thomas will be honored Monday with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail during a ceremony in Byhalia.Thomas, a native of Cayce, Miss., and who ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Musician Rufus Thomas, whose "Bear Cat" helped Sun Records get its start and whose "Funky Chicken" gave a boost to the Stax Label, died Saturday. He was 84. Thomas' son, Marvell ...

2001-12-20 04:00:00 PDT Memphis-- Rufus Thomas, the jovial patriarch of Memphis soul who billed himself as the "world's oldest teenager," died Saturday at 84. Mr. Thomas died at St. Francis Hospital ...

Legendary Memphis singer Rufus Thomas, who died this past December 15th at the age of 84, was the originator of the Funky Chicken, the World’s Oldest Teenager, and the Crown Prince Of Dance. But ...

Rufus Thomas's Do the Funky Chicken, Shirley Brown's Woman to Woman, and the Dramatics' Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get are fortified with bonus tracks LOS ANGELES, Calif.—In 1968, on the heels of the ...

The album is augmented by no less than ten bonus tracks, most of them recorded in 1972. Not merely leftovers, some of these bonus cuts were minor hits. The delicate ballad "Fell for You" climbed to ...

MEMPHIS -- Rufus Thomas, 84, a musician whose "Bear Cat" helped Sun Records get its start and whose "Funky Chicken" gave a boost to the Stax Label, died Dec. 15 in a Memphis hospital. He had a heart ...

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