Theatre will screen documentary on Memphis Sound

who was not only a singer but secretary, liner notes writer, photographer, editor and publicist for the Stax label.

Actor and musician Terrence Howard is the narrator.

Admission is $8, $6 for members.

Call (845) 658-8989 or visit rosendaletheatre.org for more information. Cropper on guitar and Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass, was one of the first integrated bands to top the charts.

The film, which is directed by Martin Shore, offers interviews with lesserknown Memphis music makers. They include Art Bell, owner of Stax Records (writer of “I’ll Take You There”); and Deanie Parker, T’s band was the house band for Stax Records.

While the sign outside Detroit’s Motown Records proclaimed “Hitsville U.S.A”, the marquee above the converted movie theater that was the home of Stax Records laid claim to “Soulsville U.S.A.”

Stax Records was a racially integrated company. Booker T’s band, with Steve Frayser Boy, Yo Gotti, Al Kapone and Lil’ P-Nut. The singers are backed by the incomparable session players of Stax and Hi Records.

Through the 1960s and ’70s, the Memphis Sound was the soundtrack of the Civil Rights movement. The hitmakers included Staple Singers, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes and Booker T & the MGs. Booker incomparable “Memphis Sound,” a Southern Soul style that began in the mid-1960s. Legends of this rhythm and blues genre who star in this film include Mavis Staples, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T. Jones, Charlie Musselwhite and Bobby Rush. Watch these icons record a powerful new album with the new generation of Memphis musicians, including

The critically acclaimed musical documentary “Take Me to the River,” a salute to the soul singers and musicians who created the Memphis Sound of the 1960s and 1970s, will be shown Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11 and 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St., Rosendale.

“Take Me to the River” tells the story of the iconic,