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booker t and the mgs
239 documents for booker t and the mgs
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Town of Delafield - Waukesha RiverFest is history. Waukesha BluesFest is what's happening. The new event launches with headliners Booker T. and the MGs on Friday, Aug. 10, and Mavis Staples on Saturday, Aug. 11.
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Pop Steve Cropper, "Dedicated" (429). One legend paying tribute to another, with a diverse crop of guests: that's the concept behind Steve Cropper's "Dedicated." Cropper, the guitarist in Booker T. & the MGs and on many of Stax Records' greatest hits, has often cited Lowman Pauling as his main formative influence. Pauling led the 5 Royales, the influential R&B group whose early '50s songs were precursors to rock 'n' roll and soul. However, "Dedicated to the One I Love," "Think" and "Baby Don't Do It" are probably better known in later versions by the Shirelles, James Brown and the Band, respectively. The album is a nostalgia trip and history lesson. Cropper's guitar and his crack band of Memphis compatriots often take a secondary role to the singers, who include Steve Winwood...
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For its sophomore release, a follow-up to last year's lauded debut "The Safecracker," the Memphis- based instrumental trio the City Champs returns with more of its classic sound gussied up with a few musical embellishments. The threesome of top in-demand session musicians - Joe Restivo (guitar), Al Gamble (Hammond B3 organ) and George Sluppick (drums) - still work its core musical base, a cross between Booker T & the MGs, the Meters and Jimmy Smith. On "The Set-Up" they receive additional help from the Bo-Keys horn section, Latino percussionist Felix Hernandez and Bo-Keys bassist/producer Scott Bomar, who recently produced Cindy Lauper's critically acclaimed "Memphis Blues" record.
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Donald "Duck" Dunn, the legendary bassist who helped create the soulful sounds of Stax records, passed on May 13 at the age of 70, while on tour in Tokyo. This afternoon at 4:30 there will be a gathering at Fourth Street and Beale Street to form a second line behind Duck's funeral procession for his final send off. Duck," as everybody knew him, was part of the Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to classics as "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." He collaborated with musicians such as the Blues Brothers, Eric Clapton, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.
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Passing Strange" coming to Broadway! The Belasco Theatre previews begin February 8. From Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin and back, "Passing Strange" takes musical theater on a whole new trip. From singer-songwriter and performance artist Stew comes "Passing Strange," a daring new musical that takes you on a journey across boundaries of place, identity and theatrical convention. Opening February 28,2008. "Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story," through Sunday, December 30 at 11:30 p.m. "Great Performances" celebrates the 50th anniversary and rebirth of Stax Records, America's pre-eminent soul music label, charting the rise of the "Memphis sound." Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film details the story behind the legendary label that launched a who's-who of soul music greats: Oti...
..., Carta and Rufus Thomas, Albert King.and Booker T. and the MGs, to name a just a few. PBS, Channel...
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Legendary soul band Booker T and The MGs will perform at the mayor's concert at the Clay Center during Charleston's fifth annual FestivALL, June 19-28. Details about the 10-day citywide arts and music festival were announced during a news conference Monday at City Hall.
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Cyd Mosteller was born singing. As a toddler, she would pull a chair to the windowsill and pretend it was a piano while singing songs she was making up on the go. After graduating from high school, Mosteller joined a big band as singer. The same year, she met her husband, Richard Mosteller. "I looked at him and he looked at me, and the earth shook," Mosteller remembers. He was drafted shortly after, and Mosteller followed him to Atlanta, where they married. He played the trumpet for the Army, and Mosteller joined the Third Army Dance Band as singer. After returning to Memphis, Richard joined the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, while Mosteller sang jingles and eventually did voiceovers for the William B. Tanner Jingle Co. She also regularly sang back-up vocals at Sun Studios, singing for Joh...
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Playwright David Barr III has emerged as on of America's gifted playwrights. His gift reaches out to many areas and situations and his musical Memphis Soul (The Music of Stax Records) is featured at the Black Ensemble Theater, 4520 N. Beacon St. Because of the tremendous interest in Barr's musical and the demand for tickets, another performance has been added for Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in addition to Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Memphis Soul is paying tribute to the great music of the Stax era featuring the label's biggest hits: Hold On I'm Coming by Sam and Dave; Gee Wiz introduced by [Carla Thomas]; It's Cheaper to Keep Her by [Johnnie Taylor], Shaff by Isaac Hayes; I'll Take You There featuring the Staple Singers; and Green Onion, the hot number by Booke...
... included Carla Thomas and the Bar-Keys, Booker T, And The MGs, Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie...
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WANT TO GO? Booker T. and The MGs With Eddie Floyd WHEN: 8 p.m. June 25 WHERE: Clay Center TICKETS: $19, $29 and $39 INFO: 304-561- 3570 or www.theclaycenter.org At 67, Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass player for Booker T. and the MG's, isn't ready to retire yet, though he wouldn't mind scaling back a little. It's just so hard to stop.
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Two "jams" (concise runthroughs) with members of Booker T. and the MGs are spread elsewhere: "Born on the Bayou" (appended to Cosmo's Factory) is rough, but deft organ accents highlight the pre-reggae profile of the skiffling "Down on the Corner" (on Willy and the Poor Boys.) You don't have tobe ajamster to strut with a very live version of long, tall "Suzie Q" (tacked to CCR's self-titled debut), who always was an exceedingly well-preserved rockabilly queen; as presented here (they were opening for Jethro Tull!), she serves herself well by shaking off Creedence mastermind John C. Fogerty's cute little reefermadness production touches.
