A low-key Memphis guitar legend builds on a musical legacy
By ADRIAN SAINZDecember 30, 2020 GMT
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) It’s 1966 and a thunderstorm illuminates the night sky in Memphis, Tennessee. Two Stax Records musicians, guitarist Steve Cropper and singer Eddie Floyd, sit in a room inside the Lorraine Motel, struggling to fashion a song about love and superstition.
The pair try many references to good and bad luck rubbing rabbit’s feet, breaking mirrors but nothing fits. Then, as the lightning flashes and the thunder roars, Cropper asks Floyd: “What do people usually do for good luck?’”
“And Eddie goes, knock, knock, knock,” Cropper told The Associated Press. “I said, ’There’s our song, ‘Knock on Wood.’”
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