Booker T & The Mgs

Legendary in-house band for the Stax record labels, founded 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. The name of the band is a combination organist Booker T. Jones and the acronym Memphis Group, MG. Al Jackson Jr. plays drums and Steve Cropper plays guitar. Lewis Steinberg is on bass. He was replaced in 1963 by Donald “Duck” Dunn. He also produced a number of great records and worked with Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett.

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