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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

In the 70s, Willie Nelson spent some time in California away from the deserts and honky tonks of Texas and Nashville. Consequently, he unknowingly rented an apartment in the same building as Booker T.

The musician was known for his work on hits including Green Onions and Otis Redding’s The Dock of the Bay.

Guitarist Steve Cropper, who left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music as an instrumentalist, producer and ...

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

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

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