Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an American instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. The original members of the group were Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr. (drums). In the 1960s, as members of the Mar-Keys, the rotating slate of musicians that served as the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists including Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor and Albert King. They also released instrumental records under their own name, including the 1962 hit single "Green Onions". As originators of the unique Stax sound, the group was one of the most prolific, respected, and imitated of its era. By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
In 1965, Steinberg was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn, who played with the group until his death in 2012. Al Jackson Jr. was murdered in 1975, after which Dunn, Cropper and Jones reunited on numerous occasions using various drummers, including Willie Hall, Anton Fig, Steve Jordan and Steve Potts.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee in 2008, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2019.
Having two white members (initially Cropper and Steinberg, later Cropper and Dunn) and two black members (Jones and Jackson Jr.), Booker T. & the M.G.'s was one of the first racially integrated rock groups,[4] at a time when soul music and the Memphis music scene, in particular, were generally considered the preserve of black culture.[5] Benny Goodman led the racially integrated Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet a quarter-century prior, and other integrated jazz bands had existed since the 1930s.
1962 - Green Onions (1968, Stax) [LP 24-192]
1965 - Soul Dressing (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1966 - And Now! (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1966 - In the Christmas Spirit (2021, Stax) [LP 24-192]
1967 - Hip Hug-Her (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1967 - Back to Back (with The Mar-Keys) (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1968 - Doin' Our Thing (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1968 - Soul Limbo (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1969 - The Booker T. Set (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1969 - Uptight (Stax) [LP 24-192]
1970 - McLemore Avenue (1970, Stax) [LP 24-192]
1970 - McLemore Avenue (2010, Stax) [LP 24-96]
1970 - McLemore Avenue (2020, Craft) [LP 24-192]
1971 - Melting Pot (1971, Stax) [LP 24-192]
1971 - Melting Pot (2019, Craft) [LP 24-192]
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