What Is Stax/Volt?

The brand of soul music known as Stax/Volt was label-based, just like Motown, but offered a harder, more emotional sound of black America to compete with its more famous Detroit rival's Sound of Young America. But the Blues Brothers, as well as countless R&B acts, would have been unthinkable without it. Read more about Stax/Volt music and its relation to other oldies music styles in my latest A-Z encyclopedia entry.