Booker T and The MGs
Booker T. & MGs Plus Memphis Horns Equals Mar-Keys On 1969’s ‘Damifiknow!’
The album featured a later, temporary line-up of the group featuring Booker T. and co and the soon-to-be Memphis Horns.
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Features2 months ago‘Hip Hug-Her’: Up Close And Personal With Booker T & The MGs
Of all Booker T & The MGs’ hits and genre-defining recordings for Stax Records, none of their albums had the success of ‘Hip Hug-Her.’
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Features4 months ago
‘McLemore Avenue’: Booker T. And The MGs Take The Beatles To Stax
Is 'Abbey Road' The Beatles’ best album? Possibly. At the very least, it inspired ‘McLemore Avenue’, which is arguably the finest hour from Booker T. & The MGs.
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Features6 months ago
Jonny Lang: Young Bluesman, Old Soul
The guitar virtuoso from Fargo, North Dakota started kicking up a storm on disc at the age of 14.
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Features6 months ago
‘Melting Pot’: Booker T & The MGs Cooking With Gas
Adapting to the new funk scene of the early 70s, Booker T & The MGs released the perfectly titled ‘Melting Pot,’ an album that still sounds in the moment.
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Features6 months ago
Key Man: Hats Off To Hammond Organ Inventor Laurens Hammond
Our tribute to Laurens Hammond, the creator of the Hammond organ, whose fantastic invention features on some of the great tracks in music history.
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Features6 months ago
Key Man: Laurens Hammond, Inventor Of The Hammond Organ
We present a uDiscover Music playlist celebrating Laurens Hammond's fantastic invention, starring Jimmy Smith, Booker T and the MGs, Procol Harum and many more.
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Features7 months ago
‘I Forgot To Be Your Lover’: William Bell Rings Up A Stax Hit
On December 21, 1968, Bell entered the R&B listings with the track that would become his first top ten hit on that chart, ‘I Forgot To Be Your Lover.’
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Features8 months ago
‘Soul Limbo’: How Booker T And The MGs Set The Bar For 60s Funk’n’Soul
From over-easy grooves to gritty, energised instrumental funk, ‘Soul Limbo’ found Booker T And The MGs working at their peak.
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Features8 months ago
‘Green Onions’: Stax Soul Food From Booker T & The MGs
Stax house band Booker T & The MGs were the rulers of instrumental soul, and they cooked up a soul food storm on ‘Green Onions,’ their debut album.
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Features8 months ago
Stax Legends 1: A London Encounter With Booker T
An audio interview with the man born in Memphis on November 12, 1944, who went on to helm the musically and culturally groundbreaking Booker T and the MGs.
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Features9 months ago
‘Willy And The Poor Boys’: Creedence See Out The 1960s In Style
Late in 1969, CCR saw out the decade as they released their fourth album 'Willy and the Poor Boys.'
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In-Depth9 months ago
Say It Loud: How Music Changes Society
A song doesn’t have to have a message in order to change society. Race relations, gender equality and identity politics have all been shaped by music.
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Features9 months ago
Stax Legends 2: Steve Cropper, Soulful Guitarist, Songwriter Supreme
Hear the former MGs member, in-demand session player for more than half a century, and co-writer of some of the greatest soul records ever made.
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News10 months ago
Watch Booker T. Jones And The National’s Matt Berninger ‘Shoplifting’
The pair take home albums by, among others, Miles Davis, R.E.M. and indeed Booker T. and the MGs.
