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 ...

He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and two years later received a Grammy Award for lifetime ...

Booker T. Jones was still a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee, when Stax Records opened there in the early 1960s and shaped the sound of American music as we know it. He got his foot in the door as a ...

Steve Cropper, who has died aged 84, was a musician, songwriter and producer, and a crucial figure in the development of the ...

Classic hits from the Memphis soul legend ...

With his band the MGs, Booker T. Jones created the classic instrumental "Green Onions." But they were also the studio band for Stax Records, making music with soul artists such as Otis Redding, Ray ...

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician played on and co-wrote classics like "Green Onions," "In the Midnight Hour," and "(Sittin' ...

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Booker T. Jones about his life in music and his new memoir, Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note. Booker T. Jones On New Memoir DON GONYEA, HOST: He is in a class ...

Songwriting legend and guitarist Steve Cropper dies aged 84 - Steve Cropper co-wrote classic songs such as ‘(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay’ and ‘In the Midnight Hour’ ...

Cropper shaped the sound of Memphis soul as an original member of the Stax Records house band ...

The songwriter, two-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer riffed on “Soul Man,” “Green Onions” and “(Sittin’ on) ...