Cropper remembered a riff that Jones had come up with weeks earlier, and before long they had a second track. He liked what he heard, and he recorded it. Jim Stewart, the president of Stax Records, was in the control booth. During downtime, the four started playing around with a bluesy organ riff. (the latter making his debut with the company) were in the Memphis studio to back the former Sun Records star Billy Lee Riley. Jones, 20-year-old guitarist Steve Cropper, and two seasoned players, bassist Lewie Steinberg and drummer Al Jackson Jr. In summer 1962, 17-year-old keyboardist Booker T. & the M.G.'s formed as the house band of Stax Records, providing backing music for numerous singers, including Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Problems playing this file? See media help.īooker T. The tempo, tone and technique of "Green Onions" make it one of the most recognized soul instrumentals. The first track from the band's debut album. & the M.G.'s was one of the first racially integrated rock groups, at a time when soul music and the Memphis music scene, in particular, were generally considered the preserve of black culture. Having two white members (initially Cropper and Steinberg, later Cropper and Dunn) and two black members (Jones and Jackson Jr.), Booker T. 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. 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. In 1965, Steinberg was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn, who played with the group until his death in 2012. By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. As originators of the unique Stax sound, the group was one of the most prolific, respected, and imitated of its era. They also released instrumental records under their own name, including the 1962 hit single " Green Onions". In the 1960s, as members of 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. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr. The original members of the group were 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 Mar-Keys, The Blues Brothers, Neil Youngīooker T. R&B, Memphis soul, funk, Southern soul, soul jazz, instrumental rock Jones (seated), Steve Cropper, Al Jackson Jr. 1967 (L-R): Donald "Duck" Dunn, Booker T.
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