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 ...

What does an iconic soul and rhythm & blues bass player do in semiretirement? He jams out with AC/DC's lead singer, of course. The icon in question is Donald "Duck" Dunn, whose Rock and Roll Hall of ...

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 ...

Booker T. & the M.G.'s made it big in 1962 with the song "Green Onions." But since that sounds suspiciously natural for the United States, we'll... Not My Job: Booker T. Jones Takes A Quiz On Funyuns ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - He led one of the greatest record-label house bands of all time, wrote a rock classic, is enshrined in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and received a lifetime Grammy award ...

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 ...