Bluesfest review: Booker T and the MGs define cool If you look up cool in the dictionary or, OK, Google it, these guys' pictures should be there. It may be hard to imagine three guys in their 60s ...

Ten years later – a decade of era-defining records from the likes of Rufus Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Carla Thomas, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, Albert King and more – the 1967 ...

Lifetime Grammy winner Booker T. Jones presented an evening of vintage Booker T & the MGs compositions and more to a holiday crowd at downtown Berkeley's Freight & Salvage. The band included Jones, ...

Memphis, Tenn.-born and raised Booker T. Jones was just 16 when he started writing the soul-rocker instrumental tune “Green Onions,” which would become a huge hit for Booker T. & the MGs, the h… ...

Clearly, Booker T. & the MGs had had plenty of their own opportunities to flex their creative muscles in the studio, having recorded with artists like Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. “But on a record ...

Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass player for the influential studio band Booker T. and the MGs, died this morning at the age of 70. Dunn was in Japan at the time, playing a series of shows at the Blue Note ...

Visiting Lecturer in Music Ivan Tan discussed the relatively unknown cover of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” by instrumental band Booker T. and the MG’s at the Orwig Music Hall Monday. Titled “McLemore ...

Joining Eddy and the Crickets as new inductees were the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns, rock producer/musician Al Kooper and Nashville producer Billy Sherrill.

As the house band of Memphis' Stax Records in the 1960s, organist Booker T. Jones and his bandmates - guitarist Steve Cropper, drummer Al Jackson Jr., original bassist Lewis Steinberg, and his ...

The sessions eventually gave birth to Booker T. and the MGs, a band that makes its way through Centennial Hall on Tuesday.

Booker T & the MGs were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and Dunn himself received a lifetime achievement Grammy award in 2007.