Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour: Watching The Tide (hyacinth vinyl) [PROVOGUE]

Why you'll love it

A limited edition on hyacinth vinyl. It is a late set from the guitarist of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the man whose playing and production are all over the Stax catalogue, from Otis Redding to Sam & Dave, and whom Rolling Stone ranked among the 100 greatest guitarists.

This edition

• Limited edition
• Hyacinth vinyl
• 12 tracks

About the album

Steve Cropper grew up in Memphis on gospel and R&B, got his first guitar at 14 and became the guitarist in the Stax house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s. That band played behind Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave and Carla Thomas, and Cropper produced many of those records too, before turning up again in the Blues Brothers band. He won two Grammys along the way.

Watching The Tide finds him with his band The Midnight Hour, playing the lean, in-the-pocket soul he helped invent. "Ticket First," "Blood From A Stone" and "It's Gonna Get Worse" are all groove and economy, and the record opens and closes with "Tandoori Chicken," which is the sort of title only a man who has nothing left to prove could get away with.

Tracklist

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Out August 28, 2026 on Provogue (cat# PRD77881).