Stax Records launched the careers of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla & Rufus Thomas, and Booker T. & The MGs back in the 1960s and 70s. But then disco hit big and all but wiped soul music off the map. This documentary harkens back to the golden era of soul and catches up with the carriers of the Stax dynasty, including Wilson Pickett, Sam Moore, Mary Wilson, Isaac Hayes, and The Chi Lites.... (Full plot summary below)
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Stax Records launched the careers of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla & Rufus Thomas, and Booker T. & The MGs back in the 1960s and 70s. But then disco hit big and all but wiped soul music off the map. This documentary harkens back to the golden era of soul and catches up with the carriers of the Stax dynasty, including Wilson Pickett, Sam Moore, Mary Wilson, Isaac Hayes, and The Chi Lites.
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| Hollywood ReporterJudith PrescottIt's fascinating to watch a group of artists who still get an enormous buzz from performing. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean Burns...a grotesque showcase for Fox News gossip columnist Roger Friedman to embarrass himself by fawning all over his aging heroes for an hour and a half. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyAn affair that for long stretches resembles a Time-Life infomercial hawking Memphis soul CDs. |
| San Francisco ExaminerJeffrey M. AndersonThe scrappy country cousin to the high-gloss Standing in the Shadows of Motown. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey...fails to give audiences as much frame of reference for the unifying economic, political and atmospheric elements that made the Stax brand of R&B soul music so powerful. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanI'd have welcomed more archival footage (Pennebaker did, after all, document Otis Redding's epochal performance at the Monterey Pop Festival), but that would be asking for another movie. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEileen M. DrennenWitnessing these singers' grace is a pleasure. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt emphasizes its stars' capacity to endure as individuals and entertainers and does not dwell on the harder times and personal travails they survived. However, it acknowledges the well-known exploitation black artists have traditionally experienced in the pop music industry. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatOnly the Strong Survive is a joyous tribute to soul music with some of the best singers of the 60s and 70s strutting their stuff on stage. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversIt gets to you, watching R&B legends such as Sam Moore, Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lites, Carla Thomas and the names above dig deeper into the music they made in the Sixties and Seventies. |
