Iconic musician Steve Cropper has died at the age of 84 in Nashville . His son Cameron confirmed the news to Variety , but no cause of death was disclosed. Decades into his career, Steve found a new audience in the 1980s as the lead guitarist for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd ’s Blues Brothers, playing on their album Briefcase Full of Blues as well as four other albums. He also appeared in the 1980 feature The Blues Brothers and its 1998 sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.
However, he was best known as the guitarist in Booker T & the MGs, with whom he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. The group's track "Green Onions" remains their best-known. He also played guitar on many of the tracks that came out of the influential Stax Records, which saw him write an

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