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Vor einem Tag · Stax started as a record store with a recording studio in the back, and Booker T. Jones recalls how both Black and white music fanatics would gather in the shop. But racism still lingered outside ...
Vor einem Tag · As a studio band, they transformed the sound of R&B music, and while surviving members Booker T. Jones and Steve Cropper are interviewed extensively in the film, less attention is paid to the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Booker T. Jones was in math class at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis when his life suddenly changed forever.. David Porter, a fellow student and musician, told Jones he and his saxophone were needed immediately down at a recording studio in largely Black south Memphis that was run by a white brother and sister, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton.
3. Mai 2024 · With a naggingly funky Hammond organ riff written by Booker T. Jones at the tender age of 17 but made by Steve Cropper’s switchblade sharp Fender chops, the track’s feel was skintight, a groove you couldn’t shake off. Laid down in three takes, Green Onions has acquired a musical half life that means A) It’s likely if you’re an adult ...
Vor 5 Tagen · This HBO documentary explores the often precarious history of the legendary label, whose artists included Booker T. & the M.G.s, Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes. By John Anderson
Vor einem Tag · 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 6 Tagen · The incredible Booker T. Jones, keyboardist for Booker T. & M.G.'s joined Bret to talk about the excellent new HBO docuseries, "STAX: SOULSVILLE U.S.A." premiering May 20. Is this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and producer also the leader of the single greatest rock and soul band of all time? Maybe!
