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and the MGs, the house band for Stax Records. & The MGs reunited and four years later they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their first record, Green Onions, inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2018, was followed by 14 more chart hits, including Hip-Hug-Her and Time. Al Jackson was shot and killed in his Memphis home by a burglar on October 1, 1975. & the MG’s delineated the soulful sound of Memphis playing behind a host of stars at Stax Records, all the while making instrumental hits of their own. After changing their name to the Mar-Keys, they scored a hit in 1961 with the song “Last Night.” In 1964, Cropper invited Dunn to join Booker T. & The MGs disbanded in 1972 when Jones relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he joined A&M Records as a staff producer. He met Cropper in high school, where the two formed their first band, the Royal Spades. Duck Dunn died in his sleep Sunday morning May 13 in Tokyo Japan after finishing 2 shows at the Blue Note Night Club.”ĭunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1941. “Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live. & The MG's 59 Audio CD 62 offers from 1.51 Track Listings Editorial Reviews THE VERY BEST OF BOOKER T AND THE MG'S features vintage photographs, extensive liner notes and remastered hits like 'Green Onions', 'Chinese Checkers', 'My Sweet Potato', 'Mo Onions', 'Hang Em High', 'Head Or Tails' and more. Steve Cropper, Dunn’s friend and bandmate who was on the same tour in Japan, announced the bassist’s passing on his Facebook page: & The MG's 260 Audio CD 24 offers from 8. & The MG's 113 Audio CD 21 offers from 7.19 McLemore Avenue Booker T. & the MG's 25 Audio CD 22 offers from 12.43 Melting Pot Booker T.

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and the MGs, died this morning at the age of 70.ĭunn was in Japan at the time, playing a series of shows at the Blue Note in Tokyo. & the MG's 73 Audio CD 14 offers from 18.45 The Complete Stax Singles Vol. Buy the triple-disc set if it's in your budget, but at less than one-third of the cost, this collection shouldn't be dismissed for its compactness and range.Donald “Duck” Dunn, bass player for the influential studio band Booker T. But originals like the majestic, soaring 'Time Is Tight' and the lyrical, playful 'Soul-Limbo' are great pieces of pop-soul composition as well, and stand up just as well to repeated listening.

Jones 's first names and the acronym for Memphis Group, MG. The band’s name is a combination of organist Booker T. 3:00 Booker T and the MGs, Eleanor Rigby. Best remembered as the in-house backing band of the Stax record label. Booker T & The MGS Greatest Hits - Johnny I Love You Stax 1970.

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The collection also makes a strong case for the band's members as composers - hits like 'Hang 'Em High' come off beautifully, especially in the crisply remastered version presented here, which brings out every nuance in the organ and guitar-dominated rendition of Dominic Frontiere's theme from the Clint Eastwood movie of that name. Booker T & The MG's More Images Profile: American instrumental rhythm & blues and soul combo, formed 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. Jones's piano skills as well as his organ playing, and all of it is marked by virtuoso playing. Booker T & the MGs are the alpha and omega of the Session Band, the Rhythm Section, the ideal of a group of backroom pickers whose interplay is almost telepathic. 'Slim Jenkins' Place' shows off Booker T. 'Slum Baby,' from three years later, features a much smoother and funkier sound.

'Booker-Loo,' one of the pieces unique to this set, features some very crunchy rhythm guitar and flamboyant organ work in its intro, before Steve Cropper takes center stage with an unusually flashy lead guitar solo spot. the mgs stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. The collection does jump around a bit across history in the course of covering the years 1963-1971, bouncing between late-'60s singles and album tracks and odd early/middle-'60s tracks. and the MG's scored some of their biggest hits, including 'Hang 'em High' and 'Time Is Tight,' in 1968-1969, and for those you will have to look to the Stax/Fantasy Greatest Hits, originally released in October 1970. It's not remotely as comprehensive as Fantasy Records' three-CD set (although this disc does have two tracks, 'Booker-Loo' and 'Slum Baby,' that don't appear on the triple-CD set) but is more comprehensive and better representative of their work (and offers better sound) than either Fantasy's single-disc best-of or the old Atlantic Records' best-of compilation. This 16-song CD, clocking in at 46 minutes, is the second-best, and the handiest and most easily affordable, compilation available on Booker T.