Guitarist, producer, and songwriter Steve Cropper , who shaped the sound of Memphis soul as a member of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & the M.G.’s , has died. The Associated Press reports. Soulsville Foundation president and CEO Pat Mitchell Worley told the AP that Cropper’s family confirmed the news to her, but did not share a cause of death. He was 84.

Cropper was an original member of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & the M.G.’s , alongside organist Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn, and drummer Al Jackson Jr. His guitar can be heard on recordings by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Carla and Rufus Thomas. In addition to backing up other artists, Booker T. and the M.G.’s released instrumental records under their own name—the best known of which is 1962’s “G

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