Don Nix

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  Memphis musician Don Nix has an enviable resume. He began his career as a charter member of the Stax family and saxophonist for the Mar-Keys, went on to write and produce hits for Freddie King and Jeff Beck, including the immortal blues classic "Goin' Down," worked with Leon Russell and George Harrison, and traveled the world -- from Hollywood to Swingin' London -- playing and recording with a who's who of rock, soul and blues.
  
  During those years, Nix was also a dedicated shutterbug, and now the result of his hobby is being displayed in a new photo exhibit called "Dirty Negatives" opening tonight at the Jack Robinson Gallery.
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  Furry Lewis, backstage at Overton Park Shell in 1969, was among images from the music world traveled by Don Nix, whose photos will be on display at Jack Robinson Gallery.
  
  Furry Lewis, backstage at Overton Park Shell in 1969, was among images from the music world traveled by Don Nix, whose photos will be on display at Jack Robinson Gallery.
  
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  "Well, I'm not really a photographer per se," says Nix.
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  "I was 14 and I had a paper route and I used the money to buy a Brownie box camera," says Nix.
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  "I took the picture of The Bar-Kays the day they left on their tour with Otis Redding just before the plane crash," says Nix. "They're standing out in front of Stax and they've got their clothes bags and they're getting ready to go to the airport. That was the last I ever saw of them."
  
  As he developed his hobby, Nix was aided by some famous photographer friends. "When I first started, Bill Eggleston befriended me and felt sorry for me and he gave me a key to his dark room," recalls Nix.
  
  Later, another Memphis photographer, Jim Chappell, "showed me how to set up my own dark room" says Nix.
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  "I met George back in 1970," says Nix.
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  The interest in his photos comes just as Nix is back in the spotlight for his music. This past year the hit HBO series "Eastbound & Down" used Nix's "Goin' Down" as its theme song, and his music has turned up in a series of major motion pictures, including the Diane Keaton comedy "Mad Money."
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  Tonight's opening reception at the Jack Robinson Gallery will find Nix and a group of surprise guests performing a set of songs celebrating the music and images that comprised his life. "I don't really know if anyone will be interested" says Nix of his photos, "but I think it's a great thing for me to be able to bring out this part of my life, and show people the things I was lucky enough to have seen through my lens."
  
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  "Dirty Negatives," an exhibit of photography by Don Nix

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  First up: Dirty Negatives, a photography exhibit from Memphis musician Don Nix, which opens at 6 p.m. tonight and runs through the end of the year.

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  Guests viewing photos of musical greats, including George Harrison, Steve Cropper, Donald ''Duck'' Dunn, Leon Russell, Albert King, Furry Lewis and Joe Cocker, on Friday night at The Jack Robinson Gallery also were treated to a concert by the musical guy who took the photos -- Don Nix.
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  Don, a producer, musician, singer and songwriter, also chatted with guests and signed at least one album for a fan at the opening reception for his exhibit of photos, "Dirty Negatives: The Photography of Don Nix.

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  At the suggestion of Don Nix, famed artist, musician and record producer Klaus Voormann traveled to Ardent to do some tracking and mixing for his forthcoming project titled A Sideman's Journey.
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  Bonnie Bramlett duets with Nix on Mockingbird, David Hood (bass) of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Kelvin Holly from Little Richard's band, John Fohl/guitar all added their bit of magic to the project as well.
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  Don Nix (Stax artist, producer and writer) and Voormann's friendship goes back to the '70s. In addition to his voca contributions, Nix helped put the players, studio and engineer together.

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  Don Nix

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  Stax's Don Nix wooed Skin Alley over to Ardent Studios in Memphis to record their fourth (and final) album, 1973's Skintight, and made them the first European band to be signed to the otherwise American soul-oriented imprint.

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  Other songs on Back to Bogalusa include a pair of band instrumentals-"Grape Jelly" and "Slap It"-along with Don Nix's "Same Old Blues," the Delbert McClinton tune "Lie No Better," and Gate's own "Dangerous Critter"-a tune about livin' above an alligator on a waterway that his neighbors call Gate's canal."I'm built right up over the water, and I can fish off the back of my deck.The gator don't bother me.If I leave him alone, he leaves me alone," he says.
  
  Despite big-jawed reptiles, Brown maintains that Louisiana is one of the few places left in America where people and nature co-exist comfortably."I'm only 32 miles from New Orleans, but it's another world out here.I think we've got some music on this album that will let people know what it's like in the bayou," he adds.
  
  Brown was born in Vinton, Louisiana, and raised not far from the Gulf Coast in Orange, Texas.He learned guitar and fiddle from his father who played and sang the tunes of the region, including French traditional songs and even German polkas.He reminds us that: "Everybody played music in those days."
  
  He began working professionally as a drummer during World War II.After a stint in the U.S. Army, Gatemouth made his debut as a guitarist in 1947 by simply walking on stage at Don Robey's famed Peacock Club in Houston and picking up an electric Gibson guitar that an ailing T-Bone Walker had put down mid-show.Gate so wowed the audience, playing his own "Gatemouth Boogie," that within a few minutes he had been showered with $600 in tips-a large haul in those cash-strapped days.

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  Biography by Bruce Eder The Alabama State Troupers was a big-band soul outfit formed by ex-Markey member Don Nix in 1971.

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  ~ Don Nix, legendary producer and musician

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