Latest Release
- MAY 20, 2024
- 15 Songs
- Soul Dressing · 1965
- Green Onions · 1962
- The Best of Booker T & The MG's · 1962
- Doin' Our Thing · 1968
- Soul Dressing · 1965
- Hip Hug-Her · 1967
- Melting Pot · 1971
- In the Christmas Spirit · 1966
- Green Onions · 1962
- Uptight (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) [Remastered] · 1969
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- 2013
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- They're the beating heart of the Memphis soul sound.
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- 2021
About Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Booker T. & The M.G.’s were history-makers on multiple levels. As the house band at Stax Records in the ’60s, they backed soul giants on R&B milestones. But they crafted milestones of their own as a self-contained unit, one of the few all-instrumental bands to score multiple Top 10 hits. They were also a rare racially integrated group in the Jim Crow-era South. Booker T. Jones was a precocious multi-instrumentalist who started playing Stax sessions when the label was still called Satellite. By 1962 he had his dream team: guitarist Steve Cropper, drummer Al Jackson Jr., and bassist Lewie Steinberg (replaced by Donald “Duck” Dunn in 1965). With a fierce, funky sound led by Jones’ thick, gospel-informed organ lines and Cropper’s terse, biting riffs, they backed Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, and many others. On their own, they unleashed R&B evergreens like “Time Is Tight” and “Green Onions.” Their ’60s classics helped create a soul template that influenced generations of rockers and R&B artists alike.
- ORIGIN
- Memphis, TN, United States
- FORMED
- 1962
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul