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Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
No living musician is more closely associated than Booker T. Jones with Memphis, the Mississippi River city that fostered a world-changing generation of blues, gospel and soul music five...
Nov 27, 2023 · Among the greatest instrumental groups of all time, Booker T & The MG's featured Hammond organ hero Booker T. Jones fronting a band whose name was both a play on the popular car and their status as a “Memphis Group”: guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Al Jackson, Jr. (who was born on this day in ...
Booker T. Jones - Official Site. Home Page. photo by Sean Davey. Time Is Tight. Join Booker’s Mailing List. SUBSCRIBE. Recent Video. It can be argued that it was Booker T. Jones who set the cast for modern soul music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring popularity.
Nov 6, 2019 · Stax soul legend Booker T. Jones discusses his new memoir, which complicates the myth of Stax Records as a racial utopia.
There never was any doubt who would be the first all-instrumental band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: That honor had to—and did, in 1992—go to Booker T. and the MG’s, the Memphis-based quartet featuring Booker T. Jones on organ, Steve Cropper on guitar, Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass and Al Jackson Jr. playing the drums.
Aug 8, 2013 · There’s no mistaking the sound of Memphis multi-instrumentalist/composer (and Hammond organ hero) Booker T Jones. It’s a deep and warmly slinky r’n’b, honed from his time leading Stax ...
