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Nov 13, 2019 · Booker T. Jones has released his memoir, titled “Time is Tight: My Life Note by Note.” Little, Brown & Co. His inspiration to write the book started at a hotel on the South Side of Chicago.
The 74-year-old musician, dressed in a black baseball hat and a bright-blue athletic pullover, sat behind his customary Hammond B-3 organ with his chin angled up slightly, like an emperor,...
There never was any doubt who would be the first all-instrumental band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: That honor had to—and did, in 1992—go to Booker T. and the MG’s, the Memphis-based quartet featuring Booker T. Jones on organ, Steve Cropper on guitar, Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass and Al Jackson Jr. playing the drums.
Dec 1, 2019 · NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with musician Booker T. Jones about his life in music and his new memoir, Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note.
Nov 6, 2019 · Two weeks before his 75th birthday, Jones — keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, producer, and, most famously, leader of foundational Stax Records house band Booker T. and the MG’s — is slowly...
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Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Feb 11, 2020 · There is one man who could have that line in his memoir, and that man is Booker T. Jones. Best known as keyboardist in Booker T. and the MGs, the multi-instrumentalist has been a force behind decades of popular music.
