Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T. and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” has died. He was 84.

Pat Mitchell Worley, president and chief executive of the Soulsville Foundation, said Cropper’s family told her that he died on Wednesday in Nashville. The foundation operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, at the site of the former Stax Records, where Cropper worked for years.

A cause of death was not immediately known. Longtime associate Eddie Gore said he was with Cr