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| | Don Nix - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
 | | Born in Memphis, Nix attended Messick High School with Donald "Duck" Dunn and Steve Cropper of the famed Stax house band Booker T. & the MG's. |
 | | After graduation, Nix spent a short stint in the Army before returning to Memphis, where he joined Dunn and Cropper, along with Wayne Jackson, Packy Axton, Terry Johnson and Jerry Lee "Smoochie" Smith, as a saxophonist in the Mar-Keys. |
 | | The group scored a smash hit with the instrumental "Last Night" on the Satelite label (later Stax/Volt), and Nix went on the road with the group, while a house band from Memphis attempted to recorded follow up hits under the Mar-Keys' name. |
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