Here’s wishing a very happy 80th birthday to Booker T. Jones, leader and keyboardist of the legendary Memphis soul band Booker T. and the MG’s. Born in Memphis, Jones was a child prodigy who in ...

When Stax Records, the famed Memphis soul label, needed a bassist to accompany one of its A-list artists, it called on musician Donald "Duck" Dunn. Together with his childhood friend, guitarist Steve ...

With that single observation, Booker T. Jones may have shared the secret behind his stellar track record as a musician, ...

Steve Cropper, a seminal soul figure and guitarist in Booker T. and the MGs, pays tribute to childhood musical heroes the 5 Royales with Dedicated, set for release on August 9. Cropper, who has often ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Guitarist Duane Eddy picked his rumbling "Peter Gunn" instrumental and Rolling Stone Keith Richards jammed with The Crickets on "Not Fade Away" as a host of musicians and producers ...

Seated behind his organ at Stax Records’ recording studio in Memphis in the Sixties, Booker T. Jones was a first-hand witness to musical history. As part of Booker T. and the MG’s, Stax’s house band, ...

That is, so long as we’re excluding Otis Redding, who I’ve been listening to on-and-off via Spotify most of the day. Seriously, this tune is five minutes of fun hip-hop/funk fusion, and well worth ...

There was a time in pop music when keyboards had soul: Booker T & the MG's time. This was back before artsy-fartsyists like Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson got famous stuffing too many notes into every ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his ...