“one of the legends of soul music. ” — The New Yorker
- Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee (1992)
- Musicians Hall of Fame Inductee (2008)
- Recipient of Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement (2007)
- Four-time Grammy Award winner (includes two wins for releases in 2009 and 2011)
“Green Onions” is the quintessential organ soul tune and the song that introduced millions to the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ 60 years ago. “Green Onions” has appeared in a long list of films and television shows, including Quadrophenia, Get Shorty, The Sopranos, and Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War. It is ranked #181 in Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest songs of all time. The Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2012, and more recently it has amassed 200 million streams on Spotify.
Booker T Jones is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, four-time Grammy winner and arguably the most famous Hammond B3 player in history. As the leader of the legendary Booker T and the MGs, this pillar of soul music collaborated with Otis Redding, Albert King, and more during his tenure at Stax Records. Since then, Booker has lent his trademark keyboard chops to and produced classic albums such as Willie Nelson’s multi-platinum hit Stardust and Bill Withers’s Just As I Am featuring the hit song “Ain’t No Sunshine”.
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PHOTO CREDIT: Piper Ferguson
- Genre:
- R&B/Soul
