CONCORD MUSIC GROUP’S STAX REMASTERS SERIES CONTINUES ON SEPTEMBER 13 WITH REISSUES FROM RUFUS THOMAS, THE DRAMATICS, AND SHIRLEY BROWN
CONCORD MUSIC GROUP’S STAX REMASTERS SERIES CONTINUES ON SEPTEMBER 13 WITH REISSUES FROM RUFUS THOMAS, THE DRAMATICS, AND SHIRLEY BROWN 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 label’s severance from Atlantic Records, Stax Records president Al Bell decided to initiate a massive 28-LP release program that would auger the label’s return to the top. The initiative fostered a new generation of Stax hitmakers including the Dramatics and Shirley Brown. And, it proved an artistically and commercially fertile time for Stax veteran Rufus Thomas. On September 13, 2011, Concord Music Group , as part of its Stax Remasters series , will reissue Rufus Thomas’s Do the Funky Chicken , the Dramatics’ Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get and Shirley Brown’s Wom...