We can thank rockabilly singer Billy Lee Riley for helping create one of music’s most enduring and timeless instrumentals, even though his name is nowhere on it. Riley was reportedly too hoarse to ...

As the guitarist in Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the house band for Stax Records, Steve Cropper was a key figure in shaping the sound of soul music in the ’60s, backing legendary singers including Otis ...

Steve Cropper, a seminal soul figure and guitarist in Booker T. and the MGs, pays tribute to childhood musical heroes the 5 Royales with Dedicated, set for release on August 9. Cropper, who has often ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Wearing a blue suit, black hat and multi-colored socks, master keyboardist Booker T. Jones leaned away from the Hammond B3 organ, tilted his head back and worked the keys and ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Guitarist Duane Eddy picked his rumbling "Peter Gunn" instrumental and Rolling Stone Keith Richards jammed with The Crickets on "Not Fade Away" as a host of musicians and producers ...

A groove is a groove, no matter the decade. And so it was that some five decades after Eddie Floyd’s "634-5789" was a hit, a group of teenage girls headed toward the Jefferson Center stage on Thursday ...

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 ...

Here’s wishing a very happy 80th birthday to Booker T. Jones, leader and keyboardist of the legendary Memphis soul band Booker T. and the MG’s. Born in Memphis, Jones was a child prodigy who in ...

Damn right, they’ve got the Blues Hall of Fame inductions they deserve. Aretha Franklin, Count Basie and Booker T. & the MGs are the household names being brought into the hall as part of the 40th ...