Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos is featured in this month’s New Yorker Magazine. Burkhard Bilger tells the story of the Stax songwriters as well as how this project came to be.
“So here’s the thing,” Pawelski says. “Everyone knows Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes. But do they know Homer Banks and Bettye Crutcher? Do they know Deanie Parker? To be able to honor some of these songwriters—it’s more than just getting a cool record out for me. This is the last Stax story. A story that hasn’t been told.”