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Vor 6 Tagen · A Great New Documentary Corrects the Record About One of Music’s Most Important Chapters. With Soulsville, U.S.A., HBO gives Stax the sweeping, complex documentary it deserves. The streaming era ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Booker T. & the MG's originally served as the house band for Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. They became one of the most important, enduring factors of the label's sound and helped define the groove of the Southern soul genre in the 1960s. Their tight, impeccable, funky grooves could be heard on classic hits by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas ...
Vor 3 Tagen · But while the organic nature of writing and recording at Stax was integral to the sound it developed – it’s all right there, the grooves and soul between the notes in the Booker T. & the MGs ...
Vor 5 Tagen · “All that talent in one place, my, my,” says Jones, a multi-instrumentalist best known for the 1962 Booker T. and the MGs hit “Green Onions.” “It was invigorating and energizing. It was a privilege.” Estelle Axton and her brother Jim Stewart started Stax recording studio in south Memphis. The first two letters of their last names ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Genre. Pop. Producer. Booker T. Jones. Children, Don’t Get Weary by Booker T. & The MG’s is a powerful song that carries a deeply meaningful message. The lyrics convey an important sentiment, urging listeners to persevere and not give up, even when faced with adversity or challenges.
Vor 5 Tagen · Booker T.’s Stax Revue is a presentation of his hits with the MGs and of the classics recorded on Stax Records by legendary artists. The Stax Revue features a ten-piece big band with three lead vocalists, a three-piece horn section and Booker T’s usual rhythm section, delivering a high energy experience curated to take the audience on a journey through Booker T’s eyes. It can be argued ...
Vor 3 Tagen · As you may have heard, MAX has just launched a four-part series on the ups and downs of STAX Records from the early-‘60s to late-70s. With blacks and whites in the segregated city forming the house band (Booker T and the MGs), and later the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the city, race takes a central role at times, amid much early music by Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Sam ...
