William Bell was another of Stax’s studio artists, and his songwriting credits are also quite impressive.

The King of Soul himself, ’nuff said.

Doubling down on Otis here, but Carla is a great voice and her Hidden Gems album is absolutely worth checking out.

This song was released first by Pickett, but actually written by the artist in the next song here.

Eddie Floyd is probably most famously known for Knock on Wood, which he and Steve Cropper had initially written for Otis Redding. Floyd and Pickett had some overlap in their song-list, including this particular song, as acknowledged in Blues Brothers 2000. Eddie Floyd and Dunn apparently stayed close their whole lives, with the two having played a double show at the Blue Note nightclub in Tokyo the night before Dunn’s death.

When most people think of “King” and “Blues” together, they think “B.B.”, when they should think “Albert” and then “Freddie”. This song was made famous by King, but was written by William Bell, showing how tight Stax kept their talent together.

I know, I said I’d do only one song per artist, but this is another classic, and it always reminds me of the Blues Brothers.

I mentioned Freddie King as my second favorite blues-playing King, and I think this song serves as solid support for that stance. If you’re not convinced, I whole-heartedly encourage you to watch his version of Have You Ever Loved A Woman as well.

So many will probably recognize this as a Van Morrison song, which it is, but this is the version that Dunn played on. Not related to Dunn, but this song actually has a bit of topical relevance in the last year. Ed Sheeran recently won a lawsuit against the Marvin Gaye estate in a dispute over whether his song Thinking Out Loud stole from Let’s Get it On. The Marvin Gaye estate may have felt emboldened after their victory in the Blurred Lines case, but I think it’s pretty obvious that this song was the actual inspiration, considering that the choruses of these two songs are strikingly similar.

I have very little to say about this song except that the album art makes me very uncomfortable.

Probably the strangest song on this list, “Can’t Get Over Losing You” was written another music insider, who was given the nickname of “The Magician of Music” over the course of his career. Russell is probably most famous for writing A Song For You.

Yet another music insider, Allman’s Anthology actually was a bit of inspiration for this list.

This was Stax Records’ last big hit before going bankrupt, and I think it kind of shows in the rest of the list here. Not a bad thing, just interesting.

A cover of an Elvis song covering a blues standard from the 20’s or 30’s. While this is an oddball take on the song, to me the song highlights how movies like Elvis or Ray are pretty much full of shit in trying to act like either artist was the first to mix blues and gospel. The two have always been pretty tied at the hip.

This one gave me definite Cat Scratch Fever vibes, but they came out in the same year. Hmm.

Ah yes, the good stuff.

If you sense echoes of Stax’s 60’s soul filtering through on this one, don’t be surprised. This song was written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, who both worked for Stax and had quite a discography together. Too bad Frampton isn’t a soul singer and this album sucked, lol.

Ok, so the original is actually Jerry Jemmott, who probably deserves his own anthology like this, but I love this movie and Dunn is the bass player credited in this version.

Kind of an interesting one, clearly Tom Petty has a bass player, but for whatever reason they decided to bring a studio musician for this session. This session also overlaps with Petty’s work with our next artist.

I felt like this was a fitting song to leave off on. Solid and tasty bass line sitting in the pocket of a song with themes on the history American music.