Anyone read Soulsville: the Story of Stax Records?

I was watching Wattstax this evening and one of the extras is commentary by the author, Rob Bowman and Chuck D. Dude really knows his shit. I figure the book's got to be interesting.

I know FT will say "best label ever" I don't know that i'd go that far, but there is such an interesting story behind it in addition to all the great artists and albums on it. Anyone have any favorites. I'd be interested in hearing them, particularly if they are lesser known greats.

I have the 9 CD Stax/Volt singles box (all their A sides and others from when they were associated with Atlantic)- the liner notes briefly tell the story and it is an interesting one.. Im horrible with track titles, but I can check and perhaps condense the 9 CDs into one mix for you.. if you want

i always wanted to visit Al Jackson Jr's house where he was shotin Memphis. So much so that I wrote two short stories about it. Still haven't made it though, and something tells me that even if I did I'd never find the place.

So I guess it's back to looking for Sterling Morrison's place in Austin this summer.

Thanks for the offer but I'm leaning towards picking up more single artist albums. I actually do own a fair amount of Stax albums including stuff by
William Bell, Isaac Hayes, the Dramatics, Shirley Brown, Booker T & the MG's, the Staple Singers, Otis Redding, the Bar Kays, and Johnny Taylor.
All of the performances on the Wattstax DVD were so good though that I'm sure I'm missing some great ones.

I'm leaning towards the two Mavis Staples solo albums and a Rance Allen as next Stax pickups but I was wondering if anyone recommended something else that I don't own.

There were pretty big feature stories on Stax and Wattstax in the Winter edition of Wax Poetics, and a story in Mojo on Mavis Staples. And I just saw Wattstax so I'm already pretty familiar with the stax story at a high level. I'm just looking to dig deeper. The author of Soulsville, Rob Bowman wrote the liner notes to that Stax box by the way.