Awwwwww CRAP. First I've heard of this terrible news.
His music with Booker T and others is among my favorite ever. So glad I got to see him with the band in 1998 here in Atlanta ... plus the tour with Neil Young in '93 when they were his backing band. (I've also seen Booker T solo three times)
Here's part of what I wrote about their '98 show:
"You really have to appreciate a group like Booker T & The MG’s, on several levels.
For one, they’re one of the few integrated groups—particularly with a black person as the leader—that have lasted.
Second, they do it all instrumentally; what the hell ever happened to instrumental hits?
Third, their style of blues-heavy R&B is really a template for many other blues-heavy R&B bands that have come up since they started.
Fourth, they don’t try to hit you over the head with raging solos and constant musical drama—often as not, they just allow many songs to just meander along a little bit at a slower pace than what most of the world moves at these days."
Sad news, Sal. Booker T & the MGs McLemore Avenue album (where they do all of Abbey Road their way) is great fun! Glad I got to see The Colonel with Dave Edmunds Rock N Revue back in 1990 (He even sang "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"). I thought it was peculiar that in the liner notes of the Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 boxed set, it listed "personnel unknown" for Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" session --as if we can't hear Sam yell "Play it, Steve" on the record.
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Awwwwww CRAP. First I've heard of this terrible news.
His music with Booker T and others is among my favorite ever. So glad I got to see him with the band in 1998 here in Atlanta ... plus the tour with Neil Young in '93 when they were his backing band. (I've also seen Booker T solo three times)
Here's part of what I wrote about their '98 show:
"You really have to appreciate a group like Booker T & The MG’s, on several levels.
For one, they’re one of the few integrated groups—particularly with a black person as the leader—that have lasted.
Second, they do it all instrumentally; what the hell ever happened to instrumental hits?
Third, their style of blues-heavy R&B is really a template for many other blues-heavy R&B bands that have come up since they started.
Fourth, they don’t try to hit you over the head with raging solos and constant musical drama—often as not, they just allow many songs to just meander along a little bit at a slower pace than what most of the world moves at these days."
Time Is Tight, friends.
That's great stuff, Noel.
Sad news, Sal.
Booker T & the MGs McLemore Avenue album (where they do all of Abbey Road their way) is great fun!
Glad I got to see The Colonel with Dave Edmunds Rock N Revue back in 1990 (He even sang "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay").
I thought it was peculiar that in the liner notes of the Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 boxed set, it listed "personnel unknown" for Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" session --as if we can't hear Sam yell "Play it, Steve" on the record.
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