Steve Cropper

And what I found out was really the contrary to all of that.

They had such a love for that kind of music, for rhythm and blues and so forth.

And I couldn't believe I went to John's house one day and he showed me a collection of blues stuff that just blew me away.

I'd never seen that big of a collection of blues music.

Of course, being in Chicago, he had a lot of access to a lot of stuff that, of course, we never heard in Memphis and so forth.

Most of it didn't reach the record shop that I worked in.

But you mentioned about Sam and Dave being their influence.

That is something that really came about whenever they decided to put a band together and got Duck Dunn and myself involved in the group.

Because they were, from the show, you know, from the routine they did on the show, their concept of an album at that point was strictly doing nothing but blues kind of songs.

And, you know, things with the Downchild Blues Band and, you know, Delbert McClinton stuff and all those kind of things.

And I felt, you know, I'd been in the business a long time, and I felt if they wanted me to contribute anything to this, I thought they should go a little bit more commercial.

And so it was my suggestion, along with Duck Dunn and all, that we do something like Soul Man.

And we later did Who's Making Love as well.

But we talked them into doing that, and then they started asking about, well, how did Sam and Dave do it?

And so we kind of started showing them some of the routines, like some of the dance things that Sam and Dave would do on stage.

And they go, yeah, man, this could be fun.

So that's something that was sort of a new ingredient put in the Blues Brothers act as we started making preparation to do a show.