The front man for Booker T. & The MGs, has released his 4th solo studio album.
THE ROAD FROM MEMPHIS, May 10, 2011. At age 66, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Life Time Achievement Grammy Winner is keeping his keyboards fine tuned with this new album.
It is a mix of hypnotic sounds, melodies, rhythms, and a little jazz infused into a timeless contemporary soul/funk album. It is refreshing when everything out there today seems to sound like something you have heard before in one form or another.
Jones has the Hammond B3 fired up, singing, purring, and moaning like a fine tuned engine. He has help from Lou Reed, Jim James, Matt Berninger, Yim Yames and Sharon Jones with vocals on the album, and even Booker T. contributes his vocals as a soloist and background.
While still in high school he co-wrote “Green Onion, which still sounds contemporary today some 50 years later. He would have been assured a job as a studio musician right out of school because he was such an accomplished artist by that time already, but he gave it all up to go to college in Indiana. He says it made him a better player, and a deeper listener, studying music from around the world.
He is an accomplished musician on the Piano, Oboe, Saxophone, Trombone and the infamous B3 Hammond Organ. He records with many artists who hold him in high regard, as arranger, producer and performing musician. He is sometimes associated with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Stephen Stills, Otis Redding, Drive By Truckers, The Mar-Keys, Rancid and last but not least the MGs.
Take a trip with Booker T, and enjoy the ride on the B3.
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