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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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  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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  ~ Don Nix, legendary producer and musician

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  Stax artists who have signed the guitar include: Academy Award-winning superstar Isaac Hayes; his former songwriting partner David Porter ("Soul Man"); soul men Steve Cropper and "Duck" Dunn (Booker T. and the MGs, The Blues Brothers); James Alexander and Larry Dodson (The Bar-Kays); keyboardist Lester Snell; guitarist Bobby Manuel; keyboardist Marvell Thomas (son of Rufus); guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts (wah-wah on "Shaft"); singer-songwriter Don Nix; Stax songwriter and Soulsville founder Deanie Parker.

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  Stax artists who have signed the guitar include: Academy Award-winning superstar Isaac Hayes; his former songwriting partner David Porter ("Soul Man"); soul men Steve Cropper and "Duck" Dunn (Booker T. and the MGs, The Blues Brothers); James Alexander and Larry Dodson (The Bar-Kays); keyboardist Lester Snell; guitarist Bobby Manuel; keyboardist Marvell Thomas (son of Rufus); guitarist Charles "Skip" Pitts (wah-wah on "Shaft"); singer-songwriter Don Nix; Stax songwriter and Soulsville founder Deanie Parker.
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  August 27. My husband went back to Ardent for two more autographs. Don Nix has had a long career as sax player for the Mar-Keys, songwriter, musician, and author. He signed, and gave us a copy of his latest CD, "I Don't Want No Trouble" (2006).

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  The tune was one of Freddie King's (or as they say in Tejas, "Freddie KANG") favorites, and also is covered strong by Jeff Beck (the real Beck)?, and others, but was written by songwriter/performer, Don Nix, many moons ago.

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  Don Nix is a songwriter and music producer.Although cited as being "obscure", he is a key figure in several genres of southern rock, soul R&B and blues.He was instrumental in the creation of the trademark "Memphis Sound" and Stax Records.
  
  A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Nix began his career playing saxophone for The Mar-keys ( which later morphed into Booker T and the MGs) along with Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love and others.
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  As a producer, Nix worked with other artist/producer's such as Leon Russell of Shelter Records, Gary Lewis and the Playboys in Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars, George Harrison of the Beatles fame and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
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  Harrison asked Nix to assemble a "soul choir" for the show.
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  Throughout his career, Don Nix worked behind the scenes as producer, arranger, musician, and many other roles for Artists such as Lonny Mack, Furry Lewis, Freddie King, Albert King, Delaney and Bonnie, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Jeff Beck, Brian May, Eric Clapton and many others.

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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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  Don Nix

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  Road Stories and Recipes, by Don Nix
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  Road Stories and Recipes, by Don Nix (Schirmer Books).As a session musician, producer, songwriter, and occasional solo artist, Don Nix was an interesting but peripheral figure of rock in the 1960s and early 1970s.He was original sax player for the Mar-Keys, worked on the Memphis scene as a producer at Stax Records, and eventually made little-known albums under his own name.Not much to build an autobiography around, you might think, but actually this is a pretty entertaining memoir of life on the rock and soul margins.For one thing, at one time or another Nix managed to cross paths with many of the huge names in the business: George Harrison (he organized the choir at the Concert for Bangladesh), Elvis Presley, Leon Russell, John Mayall, Jeff Beck, Booker T. & the MG's, bluesman Furry Lewis, Freddie King, Albert King, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, and others.More important, Nix is a pretty good storyteller.
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  Admittedly it's on the slim side, the last 60 pages of the 225-page volume dedicated to actual recipes by a few dozen of Nix's musician friends, some of them pretty famous (the musicians, that is, not the recipes).

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