Late Late Party 1965-67

[[Release Detail]] [[Release Description]] “That night, I met someone who would be very important in my musical education. He was engineering in the studio and cooking burgers in the Dairy Queen. He had a Robert Mitchum hair cut and a slow humorous style… He was one of the coolest people I ever met. He was Packy Axton.” – Jim Dickinson Despite the loving support of his musically-minded mother, Charles "Packy" Axton was ostracized from Stax proper through a rift with uncle Jim Stewart because of his casual approach and oft-eccentric ways. Packy preferred hanging out and playing music with local black musicians, something that, in the racially tense South, was viewed negatively by some. Still, throughout the mid-1960s, Packy recorded a series of hard, short, and down-home R&B stompers at Royal and Ardent Recording Studios by heavyweight producer John Fry (Big Star, Ry Cooder), accompanied by legendary Stax and Hi Records dynamos Steve Cropper, Booker T., and Teenie Hodges (Al Green,