AUGUST 1962: (L-R) Booker T. Jones on the organ, bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn, drummer Al Jackson and guitarist Steve Cropper of the R&B band Booker T. & The M.G.'s perform onstage in August 1962 Stax ...

The title "living legend" is tossed around pretty freely these days, so it often loses its meaning. But not when it comes to Booker T. and the MGs. Legend is almost an understatement for these guys.

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 still defining cool, but Booker T and the MGs do it, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his ...

When Stax Records, the famed Memphis soul label, needed a bassist to accompany one of its A-list artists, it called on musician Donald "Duck" Dunn. Together with his childhood friend, guitarist Steve ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, the Stax label dominated soul, R&B, gospel, and related genres with a stable of artists who have since become iconic figures in the history ...

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, ...

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 ...

Drummer Jim Keltner’s bio looks suspiciously like a rock ‘n’ roll hall of fame roll call, forming a legacy of recorded tracks that would show up on anyone’s desert island list. (He’s at the heart of ...