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 ...

Booker T Jones has worked as a producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist on countless recordings. He just released his first album since 1978. Backed by alt-country band the ...

Cropper was an original member of the Stax Records house band Booker T. & the M.G.’s, alongside organist Booker T. Jones, ...

There are many ways of wooing the crowd at the Latitude main stage, and last weekend saw most of them. It’s tough, though: the Obelisk Arena is a prairie of a stadium, perched on top of a hill, the ...

Steve Cropper, the guitarist best known for playing in Booker T. & The M.G.’s, has died. His son confirmed his passing to Variety today. He was 84. Cropper was born in Dora, Missouri on October 21, ...