Booker T. & The M.G.'s
R&B/Soul
The next Booker T. & The M.G.'s concert is scheduled for Monday, August 4, 2025 at Koko in London, United Kingdom. See all 2 upcoming concerts
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![Listen to Uptight (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) [Remastered] by Booker T. & The M.G.'s](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music118/v4/29/28/17/2928178b-505b-60ad-14dc-cecfebf63ee3/00025218856225.rgb.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Uptight (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) [Remastered] by Booker T. & The M.G.'s")
About Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Hometown
Memphis, TN, United States
Formed
1962
Genre
R&B/Soul
Booker T. & The M.G.’s were history-makers on multiple levels. As the house band at Stax Records in the ’60s, they backed soul giants on R&B milestones. But they crafted milestones of their own as a self-contained unit, one of the few all-instrumental bands to score multiple Top 10 hits. They were also a rare racially integrated group in the Jim Crow-era South. Booker T. Jones was a precocious multi-instrumentalist who started playing Stax sessions when the label was still called Satellite. By 1962 he had his dream team: guitarist Steve Cropper, drummer Al Jackson Jr., and bassist Lewie Steinberg (replaced by Donald “Duck” Dunn in 1965). With a fierce, funky sound led by Jones’ thick, gospel-informed organ lines and Cropper’s terse, biting riffs, they backed Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, and many others. On their own, they unleashed R&B evergreens like “Time Is Tight” and “Green Onions.” Their ’60s classics helped create a soul template that influenced generations of rockers and R&B artists alike.
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