When the bankrupt Stax closed its doors in January of '76, only two of the artists featured here had even seen the inside of a studio - fact is, half a dozen of them hadn't even been born …

For all that the Stones listened to the blues and black artists, it was a white boy from Lubbock, Texas, who provided one of their signature tracks: Charles Hardin Holley, better known as "Buddy." Mick …