Booker T. & the M.G.’s were an American instrumental R&B and jazz band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1962. The group helped shape the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. The original lineup consisted of Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass) and Al Jackson Jr. (drums). During the 1960s, as members of the Mar‑Keys, the rotating group of musicians who served as the Stax Records house band, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists including Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and Albert King. They also released instrumental recordings under their own name, including the 1962 hit “Green Onions.” As originators of the distinctive Stax sound, the group became one of the most prolific, respected and imitated bands of their era. In 1965, Steinberg was replaced by Donald “Duck” Dunn, who remained with the group until his death in 2012. Al Jackson Jr. was murdered in 1975; afterward, Dunn, Cropper and Jones reunited on numerous occasions with various drummers, including Willie Hall, Anton Fig, Steve Jordan and Steve Potts. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2019. With two white members (initially Cropper and Steinberg, later Cropper and Dunn) and two Black members (Jones and Jackson Jr.), Booker T. & the M.G.’s were one of the first racially integrated rock groups, at a time when soul music — and the Memphis music scene in particular — was widely regarded as part of Black cultural identity.
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Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
Green Onions
Eleanor Rigby
Hang Em’ High (Instrumental) (1968)
Born Under A Bad Sign
Groovin
Foxy Lady
Melting Pot
Surprise-Partie
Soul Limbo
Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
La La Means I Love You
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