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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T. Jones will release Potato Hole, his first solo album in 20 years, on April 21st. While the MGs won’t be on board for the disc, Booker T. will be joined by some prestigious guests, including Drive-By Truckers and fellow Rock Hall honoree Neil Young. The Truckers will serve as Booker’s backup band, while Young will contribute guitar to nine of the album’s 10 songs. The album is being hailed as a return to the raw funk of 1962 smash “Green Onions.” Potato Hole was produced by T. and Rob Schapf and recorded last fall in California and Georgia. The organist and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner will also hit the road in support of the LP, with a date at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest with the Drive-By Truckers already scheduled.
They recorded it. It should be out this month or next month. Oh yeah ... Neil Young plays guitar on it as well. Not sure if it's a track or two or the whole kit and kaboodle.
Post by kickinwing45 on Feb 4, 2009 22:02:59 GMT -5
If the rest of the album is as good as that song, this set will be a priority for me. I agree that Sunday afternoon would be perfect. The only question is where. Last year the DBTs played a Saturday afternoon set on the Which Stage, but with the band centered around Booker T and his music and not the DBT's I don't know where they would play.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ nice one indeed would be icing on the cake for Neil to show up and sit in. I'll be at this set either way saw DBT's at last year's 'roo for first time good band and Booker....well...you know..its Booker......I'll look forward to seeing him again too
I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right---P.T. Barnum "As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish to God he'd go away."
all's i can say that is i am lookin forward to a legend combined with some DBT's. Was introduced to the truckers last year at roo, and they freakin rocked.
Post by generalstore on Feb 5, 2009 15:13:22 GMT -5
REALLY looking forward to the new album and this show. Hopefully it'll be later in the day than DBT's "early morning wake-up call" from last year which cut my inforoo brunch short
Post by janerogatero on Apr 5, 2009 22:11:10 GMT -5
album sounds good, nice and tight. not the greatest music i've ever heard, but still will make a solid afternoon set to chill, eat pizza, and drink some beer to.
Would you recommend it for someone that is completely unfamiliar with Booker T?
You are probably at minimum familiar with Booker T and the MG's work as Stax Records' house band. From wiki:
As members of the Stax "house band" Instrumental singles and albums would continue to be issued by Booker T. & The M.G.'s throughout the 1960s. However, although a successful recording combo in their own right, the bulk of the work done by the musicians in the band during this era was as the core of the de facto house band at Stax Records.[10] Members of Booker T. & The M.G.'s (often, but not always, performing as a unit) performed as the studio backing band for Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, The Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, Delaney & Bonnie and many others in the 1960s.[11] They played on and produced hundreds of records, including classics like Walking the Dog, Hold On (I'm Comin') (on which the multi-instrumentalist Jones played tuba over Donald "Duck" Dunn's bass line), Soul Man, Who's Making Love, I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now), and Try a Little Tenderness, among others. They are thought to have defined Soul music — especially "Southern Soul" — where "the groove" was most important.
Though it's often assumed that Booker T. Jones played on all the above session work, in the mid-1960s Jones was often studying music full-time at Indiana University. Stax writer/producer Isaac Hayes usually stepped in on the occasions when Jones was unavailable for session work, and on several sessions Jones and Hayes played together with one on organ, the other on piano. However, Jones played on all the records credited to "Booker T. & The M.G.'s", and Hayes was never an official member of the group.
Individual session credits notwithstanding, what's indisputable is that the Stax house band (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, and Steinberg, along with Cropper's Mar-Keys bandmate, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn; keyboardist Isaac Hayes; and various horn players) would set a standard for soul music. Where the sign outside of Detroit's pop-soaked Motown Records aptly read "Hitsville U.S.A.", the marquee outside of the movie theatre where Stax was located proclaimed "Soulsville U.S.A.".
You're probably familiar with some of their singles, most notably "Green Onions":
Would you recommend it for someone that is completely unfamiliar with Booker T?
You are probably at minimum familiar with Booker T and the MG's work as Stax Records' house band. From wiki:
As members of the Stax "house band" Instrumental singles and albums would continue to be issued by Booker T. & The M.G.'s throughout the 1960s. However, although a successful recording combo in their own right, the bulk of the work done by the musicians in the band during this era was as the core of the de facto house band at Stax Records.[10] Members of Booker T. & The M.G.'s (often, but not always, performing as a unit) performed as the studio backing band for Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, The Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, Delaney & Bonnie and many others in the 1960s.[11] They played on and produced hundreds of records, including classics like Walking the Dog, Hold On (I'm Comin') (on which the multi-instrumentalist Jones played tuba over Donald "Duck" Dunn's bass line), Soul Man, Who's Making Love, I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now), and Try a Little Tenderness, among others. They are thought to have defined Soul music — especially "Southern Soul" — where "the groove" was most important.
Though it's often assumed that Booker T. Jones played on all the above session work, in the mid-1960s Jones was often studying music full-time at Indiana University. Stax writer/producer Isaac Hayes usually stepped in on the occasions when Jones was unavailable for session work, and on several sessions Jones and Hayes played together with one on organ, the other on piano. However, Jones played on all the records credited to "Booker T. & The M.G.'s", and Hayes was never an official member of the group.
Individual session credits notwithstanding, what's indisputable is that the Stax house band (Cropper, Jackson, Jones, and Steinberg, along with Cropper's Mar-Keys bandmate, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn; keyboardist Isaac Hayes; and various horn players) would set a standard for soul music. Where the sign outside of Detroit's pop-soaked Motown Records aptly read "Hitsville U.S.A.", the marquee outside of the movie theatre where Stax was located proclaimed "Soulsville U.S.A.".
You're probably familiar with some of their singles, most notably "Green Onions":
Most people would probably recognize Time Is Tight from any number of movies, too.
I can't wait for this show. To be honest, I'd rather it be the MGs, but this is still going to be incredible.
just gave the album a listen. Wow. This is really good. Not quite what I was expecting, but then again, I don't really know what I was expecting. The cover of Hey Ya is really well done. This would make for an awesome late afternoon show.
I listened to the album all afternoon and I am really underwhelmed. I'll catch them in a couple of weeks in New Orleans, so I'll report back on live vs. recorded impressions, but I was expecting a lot more.