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IMG_0732 Booker T and the MGs, Steve Cropper Recent Updated: 1 month ago - Created by nyjklein - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - nyjklein Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig Stax Records Tags: blues   roadtrip   soul   recordingstudio   isaachayes   highway61    Can you dig Isaac Hayes gold and fur-clad Cadillac? Great music, memorabilia and exhibits celebrate American soul music, and the great musicians that graced the recording studio. Founded in 1957 by Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton (STewart/AXton = Stax) as Satellite Records, the name Stax Records was adopted in 1961. The label was a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, also releasing gospel, funk, jazz, and blues recordings. Booker T and the MGs were the house band (!) Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Sam and Dave, Albert King ... the list goes on and on. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by kellyludwig - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kellyludwig _MG_0652R Spinning Stax, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   spinningstax    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0647R Going Around in Circles - Side D, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   goingaroundincircles   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   goingaroundincirclessided    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0625R Going Around in Circles - Side C, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   goingaroundincircles   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   goingaroundincirclessidec    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0599R Ging Around in Circles - Side B, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   goingaroundincircles   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   goingaroundincirclessideb    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0596R Going Around in Circles - Side A, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   goingaroundincircles   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   goingaroundincirclessidea    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0519R Vinyl Side B, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   vinylsideb    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0519R Thirty-Three and a Third, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   gramophone   phonograph   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0519R Vinyl Side A, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   24313   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   vinylsidea    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry _MG_0519R Vinyl Side D, Enlightenshade, Jon Perry, 24-3-13 Tags: blue   vinyl   turntable   recordplayer   spinning   lp   record   disc   longplay   stax   recorddeck   bluevinyl   24313   bookertandthemgs   thirtythreeandathird   jonperry   enlightenshade   arranginglightcom   20130324   vinylsided    Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by Enlightenshade - Jon Perry - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Enlightenshade - Jon Perry Al Jackson, Junior Tags: memphis   tennessee    Al Jackson was the original drummer for Booker T and the MGs. He performed on their hit records at Stax. Jackson also performed on a number of recordings at Stax and nearby Royal Sound. Jackson was shot to death and his murder was never solved. Recent Updated: 2 months ago - Created by michaelwfreem - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - michaelwfreem Steve Cropper ( Booker T and the MGs etc ) Skegness 27 Jan 2013 Tags: rock   steve   blues   skegness   cropper   2013    Steve Cropper, legend and all that ! Booker T and the MGs, plus house guitar for Stax. He played with Otis Redding at Monteray Festival 67 and co wrote loads of stuff. Recent Updated: 3 months ago - Created by Noddy Guevara - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Noddy Guevara Steve Cropper again Skegness 27 1 2013 Tags: rock   blues   skegness   2013    Booker T and The Mgs legend and Stax guitarist. Recent Updated: 3 months ago - Created by Noddy Guevara - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Noddy Guevara Brick from the original Stax Studio, Memphis Tennessee Tags: music   memphis   tennessee   soul   funk   stax    Originally a movie theater the Stax Studio was located at 926 East McLemore in Memphis. Home to the Stax record label which produced such artists as Booker T and the MGs, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, The Staples Singers, and Big Star. It was demolished in 1989. Recent Updated: 3 months ago - Created by crackdog - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - crackdog all my favorite rappers, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Booker T and the MGs Tags: square   squareformat   normal   iphoneography   instagramapp   uploaded:by=instagram    Recent Updated: 4 months ago - Created by Croidler - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Croidler 20120512 Tags: 2   portrait   6   3   selfportrait   man   male   flesh   scott   t   1   jamie   darkness   sister   eating   joey   10   5   maurice   4   7   8   9   daily   line   edge   365   wives   bacteria   zip   thompson   sendak   mgs   booker   dimon   fasciitis   votto   necrotizing   autopaparazzo   hyperarchive    1. necrotizing fasciitis 2. zip line 3. joey votto 4. scott thompson 5. booker t and the mgs 6. flesh eating bacteria 7. sister wives 8. jamie dimon 9. maurice sendak 10. edge of darkness Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by autopaparazzo - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - autopaparazzo Day 133 - May 12: Green Onions Tags: buildings   watertower   reddeer   365project    Booker T and the MGs!!! OK, it's not plural, it's only one, but it is called the Green Onion, the Mushroom or, officially, the Horton Waterspheroid! 132 feet tall, 62 feet wide and holding 500,000 gallons of water, it was completed in 1958 (the same year I was completed) and, at the time, was the world's tallest water tower. That's just kinda cool! Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by howardpa58 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - howardpa58 Day 133 - May 12: Green Onions Tags: buildings   watertower   reddeer   365project    Booker T and the MGs!!! OK, it's not plural, it's only one, but it is called the Green Onion, the Mushroom or, officially, the Horton Waterspheroid! 132 feet tall, 62 feet wide and holding 500,000 gallons of water, it was completed in 1958 (the same year I was completed) and, at the time, was the world's tallest water tower. That's just kinda cool! Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by howardpa58 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - howardpa58 Soul Train Blues Tags: poetry    I grew up out in the country Where the DT&I ran through Lima down to Springfield, Growin' up in the 50s and 60s on the farm and runnin' through the cornfield Just east of Swanders Farmers Elevator and Just west of Maplewood Where the Massey-Ferguson dealer next to the railroad crossing once stood. And soul music blared out of my top forty AM transistor radio I was the only white kid out in the country diggin' on James Brown and Wilson Picket don't 'ya know. The WING LIvely Guys and the WONE Bossmen were my childhood heroes And I had no FM radio yet so I can listen to 107.7 WDAO. As a high school junior I finally done got one Singing along to "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" "Cold Sweat" and "I Got You" While out in the country sun. The more my parents and my sister despised "Mr. Dynamite" The more I liked his sound and style Screamin' and struttin' and carryin' on just like Mr. Brown It just made me feel so soulfully happy for awhile. I was in my teens And I couldn't handle "Midwestern Hayride" Let alone "The Lawrence Welk Show" anymore And I rocked to the sound of Booker T. and The MGs Playin' "Hang 'Em High" While I did my 4-H rabbit feedin' chore. I would get on top of my dad's Allis-Chalmers All-Crop combine Screamin' and shakin' and havin' a good time Pretendin' it was the stage of the Apollo Theater Wishin' I was The Godfather of Soul (Years before soul music gave way to punk-funk and gangsta rap don't 'ya know.) I heard that 'ol Don Cornelius The Soul Train man done passed away He done shot himself just the other day. Failed marriages,health problems The demise of his show And other factors led up to that sad day. But I still remembered how I would wait for his R&B version of "American Bandstand" Would come on on any given Saturday. It just seems so unfair that his show is now history And I pray for his repose Hopin' Joss Stone and many others Will bring back soul music's rockin' legacy. Love...Peace....and SOUL! Rest in Peace Don. IN MEMORIAM DON CORNELIUS (1936-2012) JML 2/05/12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxywFylBcA8 Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by jmlpoeticblues - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - jmlpoeticblues Stax/Volt, Soulville USA Tags: travel   records   slr   film   tourism   analog   35mm   eos   image   kodak   iso400   memphis   tennessee   roadtrip   funky   tourist   ishootfilm   hwy   35mmfilm   400   soul   funk   americana   openroad   thesouth   roadside   eastman   tamron   3000v   dixie   rb   volt   canonrebelti   kodakfilm   stax   offtheinterstate   latent   c41   28200mm   portra400   eastmankodak   kodakportra400   roadgeek   memphistennessee   filmisnotdead   canoneosrebelti   latentimage   openroads   ontheopenroad   tamronaf28200mm   soulvilleusa   staxvoltrecords   tamronasphericalaf28200mm   thegreatriverroadtrip    Much like Sun Records, I suspect that you'll have never heard of Stax/Volt Records. You have, on the other hand, heard of the acts - folks like Booker T. and the MGs, Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and dozens more. Basically if it was funky/soul/R&B and it wasn't from Motown, it was Stax. Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by Great Beyond - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Great Beyond 201108-Memphis 158 800X600 Booker T. and the MGs were the house band and had instrumental hits like "Green Onions" and "Time is Tight" Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by ronbo1111 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - ronbo1111 Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by Dubber - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Dubber Steve Cropper Tags: thebluesbrothers   bookertthemgs   staxrecors    Stax Records, Booker T. and the MGs The Blues Brothers Recent Updated: 1 year ago - Created by bill king music - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bill king music The Gang's All Here Tags: art   club   painting   orlando   florida   jazz   blues   wallart   ericclapton   fl   bbking   jamesbrown   jerryleelewis   bbkingsbluesclub   bookertandthemgs   lamarsorrento   bkhagar    Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Booker T and the MGs, Eric Clapton ~ artwork outside BB King's Blues Club ~ Citywalk Orlando FL (Cool fact #2- I own a white baby grand piano that came out of a small recording studio that was supposed to have been played by Jerry Lee Lewis! ) Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by BKHagar *Kim* - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - BKHagar *Kim* 115/365 - The Horse Tags: hannah   2011   hanski   hannahellis   hanskiellis    On Easter Monday we went to my Aunty and Uncles house for a BBQ. It was so nice being out in the country side, catching up with family and watching their 2 horses. The weather was lovely, not a cloud in the sky, perfect for watching their neighbors helicopter (in the background of the photo) going backwards and forewords. The Horse - Booker T And The MGs www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvOTCRcY24 Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Hanski Ellis - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Hanski Ellis 1969 poster for The Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival and First Annual W.C. Handy Memorial Concert 18 x 22" poster - picture of Charlie Patton in the center - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Patton "The Memphis Sesquicentennial Inc. in conjunction with The Memphis Country Blues Society proudly presents The Fourth Annual Memphis Country Blues Festival and First Annual W.C. Handy Memorial Concert The Festival will officially begin Friday June 6 and Saturday June 7, 1969 with three daytime concerts and two evening concerts all in the Overton Park Shell, culminating with the W.C. Handy Memorial Concert in the Mid-South Coliseum on Sunday June 8th. Tickets for the Shell concerts will be available at time of performance only Tickets for the W.C. Handy concert will be on advance sale at many Memphis locations ($2.50 to $5.00) Claude Mabel (artist?) Johnny Winter Canned Heat Backwards Sam Firk Bukka White Carla and Rufus Thomas Insect Trust Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods Nathan Beauregard Sun Smith and the Beale Street Five Elder Lonnie McIntorsch Sleepy John Estes Blues Band Lum Guffin The World Greatest Jazz Band Albert King The Bar-Kays with Toni Mason Jo-Ann Kelley Furry Lewis Slim Harpo Rev. Robert Wilkins John Fahey Southern Fife and Drum Corps Booker T. and the MGs Moloch Casietta George Sid Selvidge Soldiers of the Cross Robert Pete Williams Rev. Ishmon Bracey Wild Child Butler" Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by ⓑⓘⓡⓒⓗ from memphis - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - ⓑⓘⓡⓒⓗ from memphis dancing Henry dancing to his new favorite song by booker t and the mgs. Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Jnny B - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Jnny B Green Onions (Booker T and the MGs) And this is where it's at ! (the Choice is yours, Black Sheep) Homemade chicken stock, white wine, carmelized onions and a spritzeling of chives ! Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Cook to the beat - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Cook to the beat Teesside buses town and country Tags: clevelandtransit   teessidemunicipaltransport   teessidebuscine    Scenes of Teesside Municipal Transport/Cleveland Transit buses taken 1973/1974. Music - Soul Limbo by Booker T and the MGs Recent Updated: 2 years ago - Created by Wood's Library - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Wood's Library Knocking on wood Tags: world   nashville   bbc   service   floods    This is a snare drum played by Al Jackson Jr, drummer with Booker T and the MGs who played on countless soul hits. This snare apparently featured on the hit Knock on Wood by Eddie Floyd. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by bbcworldservice - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bbcworldservice Booker T and the MGs Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by kevinbaune - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kevinbaune Audience for Booker T and the MGs Tags: usa   mud   memphis   tennessee   livemusic   bealestmusicfestival    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Numinosity (Gary J Wood) - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Numinosity (Gary J Wood) Booker T and the MGs Tags: usa   memphis   tennessee   livemusic   bealestmusicfestival    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Numinosity (Gary J Wood) - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Numinosity (Gary J Wood) Booker T and the MGs Tags: usa   memphis   tennessee   livemusic   bealestmusicfestival    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Numinosity (Gary J Wood) - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Numinosity (Gary J Wood) Audience for Booker T and the MGs Tags: usa   mud   memphis   tennessee   livemusic   bealestmusicfestival    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Numinosity (Gary J Wood) - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Numinosity (Gary J Wood) Booker T and the MGs Tags: usa   mud   memphis   tennessee   livemusic   bealestmusicfestival    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Numinosity (Gary J Wood) - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Numinosity (Gary J Wood) Donald "Duck" Dunn Nr. 1 Tags: memphis   soul   concertphotography   bookertthemgs   canon50d   bealestmusicfestival   donaldduckdunn   festivalphotography   paulchandlermoulton   staxsound   staxhouseband   canonef8575300    Booker T & the MGs performing at the Beale St. Music Festival, May 2, 2010. For some additional photographs and written word on Day 3 of the Beale St. Music Festival visit the original Area Code Greetings: areacodegreetings.blogspot.com/2010/05/beale-st-music-fes... rr2.hostasaurus.com/inductees/booker-t-and-the-mgs Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Chandler Moulton - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Chandler Moulton Booker T Jones Nr. 2 Tags: memphis   soul   concertphotography   bookertthemgs   canon50d   bealestmusicfestival   festivalphotography   paulchandlermoulton   staxsound   staxhouseband   canonef8575300    Booker T & the MGs performing at the Beale St. Music Festival, May 2, 2010. For some additional photographs and written word on Day 3 of the Beale St. Music Festival visit the original Area Code Greetings: areacodegreetings.blogspot.com/2010/05/beale-st-music-fes... rr2.hostasaurus.com/inductees/booker-t-and-the-mgs Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Chandler Moulton - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Chandler Moulton Steve Cropper Nr. 2 Tags: memphis   soul   concertphotography   bookertthemgs   canon50d   bealestmusicfestival   festivalphotography   paulchandlermoulton   staxsound   staxhouseband   canonef8575300    Booker T & the MGs performing at the Beale St. Music Festival, May 2, 2010. For some additional photographs and written word on Day 3 of the Beale St. Music Festival visit the original Area Code Greetings: areacodegreetings.blogspot.com/2010/05/beale-st-music-fes... rr2.hostasaurus.com/inductees/booker-t-and-the-mgs Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Chandler Moulton - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Chandler Moulton Booker T and The MGs - Time Is Tight Tags: t   time   vinyl   tight   mgs   booker   stax    Original Pressing - classic instrumental. Stax records. Part of my music collectables series! Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by squidney - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - squidney El observante Tags: madrid   bw   lafotodelasemana   pentax   bn   donniedarko   fernandoalonso   k100d   elobservante   lfs122010    (Part.14,15,16 y 17) Recomiendo : View On Black Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Donnie Darko. - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Donnie Darko. 11. Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs Tags: red   onions   365    Red, actually. Y'know. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by jono.ganz - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - jono.ganz Green Onions Tags: food   canada   vegetables   retail   fruit   nikon   mainstreet   display   availablelight   britishcolumbia   produce   onion   grocerystore   safeway   penticton   greenonion   d90   colorfulworld   cmwd   cmwdgreen   afsnikkor35mmf18g   canadasafeway    I can see what Booker T and the MGs were talking about... Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by bulliver - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bulliver The Privates Hammond Orchestra Tags: scotland   argyll   kaya   lochfyne   livemusicfestival   herculesmandarin   thecamans   disconnectmusicfestival   thegeorgehotelinveraray   theprivateshammondorchestra    These guys were fantastic, to give you an idea of their sound, think Booker T and the MGs, that and much more! Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by markarma1 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - markarma1 LBW Tags: festival   video   glastonbury   cricket   glastonburyfestival   2009   lbw   flickrvideo   bookertandthemgs   glasto09   glastonbury09   soullimbo    Sorry about the poor sound quality, but hopefully worth it for the "cricket music" at the end. I like it anyway. Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by Auntie P - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Auntie P Green Onions I found this old Stax 7" of 'Green Onions' by Booker T and the MGs at my Grandma's house while going through her things. Either this was my mom's or my Grandma was super hip. Plays fine! Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by wnka - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - wnka ...Vintage... Tags: sepia   vintage   stjohn   ricordi   twop   ventilatore   infanzia   anni60   marelli   altritempi   flickraward   flickrdiamond   damniwishidtakenthat   roughthought   paololivornosfriends    Green Onions Booker T & The MGS green onions live - booker t and the mgs - suggerita da sguardojos Vintage è un attributo che definisce le qualità ed il valore di un oggetto prodotto almeno vent'anni prima del momento attuale e che può altresì essere riferito a secoli passati senza necessariamente essere circoscritto al Ventesimo secolo. Gli oggetti definiti Vintage sono considerati oggetti di culto per differenti ragioni tra le quali le qualità superiori con cui sono stati prodotti, se confrontati ad altre produzioni precedenti o successive dello stesso manufatto, o per ragioni legate a motivi di cultura o costume. Anche se pronunciato impropriamente all'Inglese , il vocabolo deriva dalla locuzione di lingua francese l'age du vin (l'annata del vino) e, per estensione, da vendange (vendemmia). (Wikipedia) Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by cb.almostblue - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - cb.almostblue ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL OF FAME BALLOT Tags: cream   jimihendrix   davidbowie   buffalospringfield   bobbybluebland   bookertandthemgs   duaneeddy    Recent Updated: 3 years ago - Created by popkrazy - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - popkrazy booker t and the mgs Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by harzan - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - harzan Live band Tags: leeds   jazz   funky   soul   liveband   clavinet   hammondorgan   bookertandthemgs   newmastersounds   selabar   bobbirch    Sela bar, Leeds, Wednesday night Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by Falling in love again - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Falling in love again hip hug her - booker T and the MGs Tags: vinyl   45   soul   bookert   hammondorgan   hiphugher    this has been a favourite of mine for about 30 years now... class. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by ☆eightballphotography.com☆ - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - ☆eightballphotography.com☆ Booker T. and the MGs Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by jim_giza - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - jim_giza Geo's music. Tags: show   sculpture   music   bronze   george   exhibition   figure   pete   marco   figuresculpture   marcocochrane    Page 22 of 40. Geo starts the music in passive mode at first with stuff like "Booker T and the MGs", but it is long into the party before the dancing starts. ___ Note, next to the laptop, that is one of the little wooden food boats. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by doneastwest - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - doneastwest 30Jan09 ~ Live Music Tags: music   gig   bands   edtech3652009    Friday night so I went with a few friends to watch a cover band. They played Booker T and the MGs and soul songs by Sam and Dave. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by grace_kat - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - grace_kat Booker T and the MGs Tags: memphis   minneapolis   soul   stax   stevepotts   eddiefloyd   bookertjones   stevecropper   bookertandthemgs   dakotajazzclub   duckdunn    A well-oiled soul machine, if there ever was one. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by findeerror - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - findeerror Booker T and the MGs with Eddie Floyd Tags: memphis   minneapolis   soul   stax   stevepotts   eddiefloyd   bookertjones   stevecropper   bookertandthemgs   dakotajazzclub   duckdunn    Eddie Floyd with Booker T and the MG's, Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by findeerror - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - findeerror Booker T and the MGs Tags: memphis   minneapolis   soul   stax   stevepotts   eddiefloyd   bookertjones   stevecropper   bookertandthemgs   dakotajazzclub   duckdunn    Booker T and the MG's, Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis. Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by findeerror - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - findeerror Hip hug her Tags: toronto   mixed   artist   album   stripes   longhair   retro   lp   blonde   medium   rb   redshoes   pokadots   stax   retrolook   60sfashion   bookertandthemgs   hiphugherpants   stripedclothing   artisttoronto   frankpeluso   frankpelusotorontophotographer    www.history-of-rock.com/booker_t_and_the_mgs.htm Although this band was from Memphis, you can see how the cover art depicts swingin Carnaby St., in London England. Good marketing tactic after they saw how well their biggest hit LP did, called "Green Onions". www.history-of-rock.com/booker_t_and_the_mgs.htm Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by photofranco2007 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - photofranco2007 Kid Rock, Melinda Doolittle Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Melinda Doolittle with inductee Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Look, we're twins! Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Keith Richards and a Cricket Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Joe Chambers, Keith Richards Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Keith Richards, The Crickets Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt The Crickets with Keith Richards Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Booker T. and Percy Sledge Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Barbara Mandrell with an 11-year-old fan Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Percy Sledge with his East Nashville buddy Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Phil Everly with a Cricket Keith Richard, Kid Rock and Percy Sledge were among the stars who honored the 2008 class of inductees of the Musicians Hall of Fame. The Crickets and Booker T and the MGs were among the inductees feted Oct. 28, 2008 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Photo/Brad Schmitt-News 2 Recent Updated: 4 years ago - Created by bradschmitt - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - bradschmitt Ace Walking Flickr hosts videos now! Cool! This is the same video I put up on YouTube, but I thought I'd see how it worked on Flickr. Pretty good. The music is "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by t.shirbert - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - t.shirbert take a bite! hey! it's not a tulip! he he he........... green onions- Booker T and the MGS baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjJ524l49Y&feature=related Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by Kaos2 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Kaos2 Former Ardent Studio Tags: music   memphis   studios   recording    Old Ardent Recording Studio. Big Star Recorded their first album here as well as Cargo and a lot of STAX recording. Walking through the Ardent doors came Cargo, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MGs, The Bar-Kays, Johnnie Taylor, Rufus Thomas, and Albert King, as well as Leon Russell and artists on his Shelter label.This studio was the overflow studio when the STAX studio was booked. Led Zeppelin 3 was mixed here. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by JoTeri - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - JoTeri Al Jackson, Jr. grave Tags: drums   memphis   tennessee   soul   drummer   soulmusic   algreen   stax   rhythmandblues   letsstaytogether   bookertandthemgs   aljacksonjr    New Park Cemetery, Memphis Al Jackson was the drummer in Memphis soul group Booker T. and the MGs, and his distinctive style, a delayed backbeat that he developed with guitarist Steve Cropper, formed a crucial part of the Memphis sound. After Stax was sold, Jackson played with Al Green and even wrote Green's #1 hit "Let's Stay Together." At the peak of his career, Jackson was tragically murdered in 1975. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by joseph a - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - joseph a Autumn Chrysanthemum Listen to a little Booker T and the MGs www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDDKZ7PERDk View On Black Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by Kaos2 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Kaos2 hayesrestarea This is at the Isaac Hayes, Tina Turner, and Booker T and the MGs rest stop. Somewhere between nashville and Memphis. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by kingv100 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kingv100 70817s036 Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bass player for Booker T. and the MGs, also in the Blue Brothers Band. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by freshbits - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - freshbits 70817s027 Steve "The Colonel" Cropper practices before signing. Steve was the guitarist for the Mar-Keys, and (more famously) for Booker T. and the MGs. Perhaps even more famously for the younger crowd, he in in the Blues Brothers band made famous by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi movie. Steve and the others are here at Ardent for a week or so of work with Guy Sebastian. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by freshbits - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - freshbits booker t and the mgs Booker T. and the M.G.s Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by aflamingstar - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - aflamingstar In and Out Grocery Tags: memphis   tennessee   drpepper   innercity   grocery   oldsign   soulsville   bookertthemgs   bookertandthemgs   mcelmoreavenue    Memphis, Tennessee This grocery was almost featured on the cover of Memphis soul group Booker T and the MGs' 1970 album, McElmore Avenue. Recent Updated: 5 years ago - Created by joseph a - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - joseph a Pa (Green Onions) Tags: food   asian   greenonions   koreanfood   韓國   mandoo   음식   요리   한식   설날   만두   韓食   한국음식   飮食    Queue the Booker T and the MGs ;) Recent Updated: 6 years ago - Created by Pabo76 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Pabo76 Soulsville USA Tags: music   usa   cinema   museum   lomo   memphis   tennessee   soul   restored   converted   otisredding   martinlutherking   stax   soulsville   capitaltheatre   astors   mclemoreavenue    Looking for the birthplace of southern soul, I came across the Hooper Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopalian church which used to stand in Duncan, Mississippi, 100 miles south of Memphis on Highway 61. It was a spartan building with hard pews, an ornate pulpit and a piano that was never tuned. By the right aisle was a case containing a paper fan with a portrait of Mahalia Jackson on it, and a notice, with an explanatory message from Deanie Parker, whose grandfather founded the church in 1906: "The full moon would shine brightly, casting a shadow on the bayou. The sounds of the bullfrogs and crickets were drowned out by the stirring music that reverberated from thigh-slapping male quartets. The visiting preacher, along with the unrehearsed choirs singing R&B selections, could be heard way down the road past the silos and bamboo thickets." The Hooper Chapel is the second thing you see when you enter the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. First comes a film in which Ray Charles explains that soul is a music in which church, blues and country "all intertwined, some kind of way". Solomon Burke states that "country music is soul music - it’s the soul of the country". Al Bell, the former president of Stax, tries to explain the music. "It wasn’t political. It was pure. It was tough." Then comes Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a stern matron in a flowery dress, knocking merry hell from an electric guitar. Somewhere, Booker T Jones makes a pointed remark. Stax died, he says, when Dr Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis in 1968. Walking past the chapel, we may learn that the term "soul" was first applied to music in the 1950s, referring to a blend of hard bop, gospel and blues. Before soul, there was gospel, a style which aimed for transcendence and purity of expression, in which devotion walked in step with humility, and which was made commercial by Johnnie Taylor and Sam Cooke, who sang about love as if seeking salvation. We can appreciate that, with the growth of the civil rights movement, the songs became more nuanced: Respect or Soul Man could be heard as expressions of black pride. But, as Greil Marcus has noted, Respect sung by Otis Redding is different from Respect sung by Aretha Franklin. Otis is chiding his woman, Aretha is addressing all men. The museum gives you this, while also being full of the ephemera of soul. Here, in a glass case, are the clothes of Ike and Tina Turner. Tina’s dress is yellow with silver swirls, her shoes are gold. Ike’s jacket, folded beside his Telecaster, is silver. Here is Rufus Thomas’s white spangled cape, his red snakeskin boots. There, the rabbit fur coat worn by Norman West of the Soul Children and the patchwork boots worn by Don Nix of the Mar-Keys. In the case dedicated to Booker T and the MGs: Al Jackson’s jacket; Steve Cropper’s first amp, a Fender Princeton; Donald "Duck" Dunn’s customised pipe, with his own head carved on the bowl. In the Otis Redding display, the singer’s suede jacket. There, the tape recorder on which he recorded Respect. And there, Phalon Jones’s King Super 20 sax, retrieved from the plane crash which killed its owner, and took Otis. Around the corner, demanding attention, are the cast-offs of a man known to one generation as Black Moses, and to another as Chef. A reversible fluorescent cape, circa 1971, in orange and pink; a yellow suit with the man’s face on the back. And - can you dig it? - a peacock blue Cadillac Eldorado with a white fur carpet: a perk of Isaac Hayes’s 1972 contract. Next to the car, a sign: "While some members of the black community criticised Hayes for the ostentatious nature of the car, the gold-plated Cadillac was, for many, a symbol of upward mobility." When he was looking for a line to sell his records, Stax president Al Bell came up with "Soulsville". In laying claim to a genre, Bell was guilty of cheek, but his arrogance was justified. Detroit had Motown, a brand of soul which was accessible and poppy, or, to Bell, "cosmospolitan" . Stax was something else. It was hard and immediate. At a time when pop production was tending towards lushness, Stax’s records were clear, compressed joy. The word people use is "integrated". By an accident of geography, when Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton set up Stax in a disused cinema on McLemore Avenue in south Memphis, aiming to record pop and country artists, they sited themselves in an evolving neighbourhood. The area was white, changing to black. The membership of the house band, Booker T and the MGs (with MG standing for Memphis Group) was mixed, as was that of the Memphis Horns. "A lot of the artists came from this neighbourhood," says museum curator Nashid Madyun. "Booker T Jones walked up: when Green Onions was cut he was in tenth grade. He just wanted to see what a recording studio was like, and, here goes, he’s a prodigy. David Porter, Aretha Franklin, Nat D Williams, all from this neighbourhood." To this list of local talent, add the names of Rufus Thomas, William Bell, horn players Andrew Love and Gilbert Caple, plus members of the Bar-Kays, the Mad Lads and the Soul Children. ‘When I listen to the music today, I feel the same way I did when we cut it. I have to fasten my seatbelt’ Another who tried to insinuate herself into the Stax family was Deanie Parker, who cut a couple of records before taking charge of publicity, sending 45s to radio announcers with a metal addressograph machine. "Stax was an incredible place for anybody who thought they had any talent at all," says Parker. "They had an open door policy." Parker played a few shows with Booker T and the MGs, before deciding that performance was not her forte. "I didn’t like singing in front of large audiences. I didn’t like being on the road. It was difficult, you couldn’t stay in nice hotels, you couldn’t eat in restaurants. You couldn’t stop and use the rest rooms. It was a hard life." Between the lines of Parker’s remarks is an acknowledgement that, though Stax was integrated, Memphis and the South were still in the grip of racial segregation. What happened? Stax expanded and the purity of the sound was diluted. After 1968, the family spirit of the company began to weaken. Integration became difficult when, after King’s assassination, Memphis was gripped by riots. The studio closed in 1975, ownership transferred to the church and the building was left to rot. It was demolished in 1989. Throughout that time, Deanie Parker had a dream. "I was afraid to share it with anybody, because I knew it would be a monumental task. I was afraid that I could never assemble the kind of support, financial and otherwise, to make it happen alone, and I had been around long enough to know that when you share a dream, people kill the dream. "I also hurt a little bit, because we didn’t get a farewell. We were put out, those of us who were at Stax Records. We were, what’s that word for when you’re in a home and you don’t pay your rent? Evicted." When Stax folded, Parker left Memphis, and refused to visit the derelict site. She returned in 1983, and was asked to join a group who planned to obstruct the bulldozers. "I was frozen. I couldn’t do it because, to me, what was left here that was decaying, along with the rest of the neighbourhood, was symbolic of nothing more than bricks and mortar. The lives of people had been interrupted and destroyed. That was the most important thing that had happened. "The worst part of it was that this was an organisation whose greatest strength was that it had an open door policy, that it was a mentoring environment, that there were people here who enjoyed cultural exchange. We were a seamlessly integrated organisation. We were atypical of everything else that was going on in Memphis and the South. "You can’t put that together again, you can’t make up for that lost time, but the music saved us. The music is timeless. The music has made a statement. The music has given us a reason to do what we’re doing today. Because, I tell you, when I listen to it today, I feel the same way that I did when we cut it. I have to fasten my seatbelt." Parker is president and executive director of Soulsville USA, which has rebuilt the Stax studio, and which plans to use the profits from the museum to support an academy where local children can learn to play music. Soulsville is now a defined geographical region encompassing two zipcodes in south Memphis. The area, no less depressed than it was when Stax was extant, is benefiting again from the visceral power of soul music. Outside, a few steps from the Michael’s Magnificent Cuts and Styles barber shop, I meet Curtis Johnson, who used to sing with the Astors, and had a hit with Candy. He has just toured the museum, and was impressed by the reconstructed studio, which reproduces the old sloping floor, inherited from its days as a cinema. "The old control room is what got me: the way it’s set up, the Billboard magazines on the floor and the Coke bottle sitting on top of the mixing machine. The same way Steve [Cropper] and the guys used to do when they were working at the machine. "We spent many, many hours listening to playbacks after we’d go out there and record. But with the two-track system you couldn’t edit the way you do now. You had to just go back and re-do it over and over, so we may sing the same song 25 or 30 times, and we had to listen to the playback each time to make sure that it was right. "We didn’t realise at the time that we were going to be a part of history. As a matter of fact, I got rid of all the old outfits and uniforms that we used to wear, and the posters. Had I known that anything like this would develop I would have kept a lot of that stuff." Johnson’s voice is heavy with emotion. "I’m just blown away by the whole thing," he says. "Deanie’s dream of bringing this back and doing this ... we’re in her debt forever for, in a sense, making us immortal." I ask Deanie Parker about Dr King. She says that Stax had been trying to fulfil his dream, but at the time, Memphis wasn’t ready. "This community did not deserve to lose Stax records. This was the crown jewel of this community. It was the hope, the pride. Now we’ve come back even better because we’re able to do something for the future. For the children who are looking for the same kind of opportunities, the same kind of attention, patience, for somebody like Steve Cropper to say, ‘OK, Jimmy King …’" It seems as if Parker is thinking about absent friends: Jimmy King and Carl Cunningham of the Bar-Kays died in the Otis plane crash in 1967: "One of the things Steve said to me when we were talking about memorabilia was, ‘If you’re talking to the King family, ask them if they still got that guitar that I let Jimmy have. And I’ll guarantee you that if Al Jackson Jr were living he’d probably say, ‘Hey, you can have these drumsticks. Carl gave them back to me, he’s gone on to be a great drummer now.’" "This kid, Carl, used to roll his little apron across his waist and come from across the street down at the corner from the shoeshine shop and sit there mesmerised by these guys in the studio. "This is what we have to do. You reach a point where you do things and you look back and you say, ‘Well, what is my life really worth if I can’t share these things that have benefited me?’" --- Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 East McLemore, Memphis, tel: 001 901 942 7685; www.soulsvilleusa.com Recent Updated: 6 years ago - Created by Herschell Hershey - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - Herschell Hershey green onions Tags: food   vegetables    like Booker T. and the MGs (if you're old enough to remember) Recent Updated: 6 years ago - Created by vetsense - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - vetsense Stax Tags: memphis   soulmusic   stax    Next we went to Stax. This was a movie theater that they turned into a studio that produced amazing music from amazing folks: Otis Redding ("[Sitting on the] Dock of the Bay"), Sam & Dave ("Soul Man"), Wilson Pickett ("In the Midnight Hour")...and basically all the folks in the Blues Brothers. The Stax house band, Booker T and the MGs, (whichwas in the movie) included Steve Cropper, my spouse's guitar hero, who we met in the Beale Street restaurant. At some point, when the studio was abandoned, they tore it down. Then folks were like, hey, that was a cool place and should be a museum, so they rebuilt the whole thing. Here's a rare photo of my spouse, with Jay B. Flatt. Recent Updated: 7 years ago - Created by kleepet - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - kleepet Booker T and the MGs Tags: festival   guitar   crossroads    Recent Updated: 8 years ago - Created by mrichardson03 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - mrichardson03 Booker T and the MGs Tags: festival   guitar   crossroads    Recent Updated: 8 years ago - Created by mrichardson03 - View Copyright and permission to use should be sought to the author - mrichardson03