Booker T. & The MG's CD: Sound The Alarm

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(2013 'Concord') 47:34/12. New album from the legendary soul icon with many guests: MAYER... more

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Booker T. & The MG's: Sound The Alarm

(2013 'Concord') 47:34/12. New album from the legendary soul icon with many guests: MAYER HAWTHORNE, ANTHONY HAMILTON, GARY CLARK JR., etc.

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Interpret: Booker T. & The MG's
Album titlle: Sound The Alarm
Label Fantasy
Genre R&B, Soul
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0888072341210
weight in Kg 0.1

Booker T. & The MG's - Sound The Alarm CD 1
01	Sound Of The Alarm	Booker T. & The MG's
02	All Over The Place	Booker T. & The MG's
03	Fun	Booker T. & The MG's
04	Broken Heart	Booker T. & The MG's
05	Feel Good	Booker T. & The MG's
06	Gently	Booker T. & The MG's
07	Austin City Blues	Booker T. & The MG's
08	Can't Wait	Booker T. & The MG's
09	66 Impala	Booker T. & The MG's
10	Your Love Is No Love	Booker T. & The MG's
11	Watch You Sleeping	Booker T. & The MG's
12	Father Son Blues	Booker T. & The MG's

Booker T and the MGs. Booker T Jones, born on Dec. 11, 1944, in Memphis, multi-instrumentalist,... more

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"Booker T. & The MG's"

Booker T and the MGs. Booker T Jones, born on Dec. 11, 1944, in Memphis, multi-instrumentalist, primarily key-board, and the Memphis Group — Steve Cropper (born Oct. 21, 1941) guitar, originally Louis Steinberg on bass, later re-placed by Donald 'Duck' Dunn (born Nov. 24, 1941), Al Jackson (born Nov. 17, 1945) drums — were for ten years the nucleus of the houseband for Stax records — the corner-stone of the company, its sound, and its success.

Originally the rhythm section of the Mar-Keys, the four men were recorded at an impromptu session minus horns, resulting in 'Green Onions', a bluesy organ riff slashed through by Cropper's razor-sharp tones, riding on a simple but persuasive bass and drum line. Issued on the new sub-sidiary Volt, it was transferred to the parent Stax label and distributed by Atlantic to a million sales in August, 1962. Much tighter than the average small R&B combo, their eco-nomic and expressive interplay of ideas was effective on moody, small-hours blues or hard-driving dance tunes, dis-played in over a dozen albums and twenty more singles, in-cluding 'Bootleg' (1965), 'Hip Hug-Her', `Groovin" (1967), `Soul Limbo' (1968), and 'Time Is Tight' (1969) from their soundtrack to the film 'Uptight'. Even more impressive was their contribution to virtually every hit created in the Stax studios in the Sixties.

They backed not only the company's own stars, but also provided other Atlantic artists with the most consistently successful answer to the Motown Sound. In 1971, tired of the pressures in a company which had long outgrown its intimate beginnings, Booker T escaped to a new career with his wife, Priscilla Coolidge, on the West Coast; Dunn stayed on in Memphis; Cropper has become a roving writer /producer and sessionman. Jackson remained a leading session drummer until his death in 1975.

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