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Booker T. Jones is featured on the soundtrack CD to the new movie "Be Kind Rewind" starring Mos Def, Jack Black, Danny Glover and directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) . The soundtrack is out now on Lakeshore Records and also includes music from Mos Def, Jack Black, Fats Waller and Billy Preston. Booker performs on three tracks on the soundtrack including "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Lulu's Back in Town" and "Sunny Monday" with fellow MG's Steve Cropper and Donald 'Duck' Dunn. Director Michel Gondry even gets into the act by playing on the first two tracks. You can learn more by visiting myspace.com/bekindrewindsoundtrack. Booker is currently writing and recording for a new solo CD and will be performing live throughout 2008 -...see tour dates >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Amazon.com has released their annual picks for Best Music of the Year and Rosebud artists Bettye LaVette, Mavis Staples, John Hammond, Loudon Wainwright III and Bill Frisell are among those honored. Bettye LaVette's The Scene of the Crime was recognized as the #2 CD of the year in the R&B category, while Mavis Staples' We'll Never Turn Back (produced by Ry Cooder) was selected as the #5 CD of the year in the Gospel category. Mavis also makes an appearance with her family The Staple Singers on the #3 R&B CD of the Year The Stax 50th Anniversary Collection, which also features songs by Rosebud artist Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the MG's). Loudon Wainwright III's Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the Film Knocked Up was named the fifth Best Soundtrack of the year. And John Hammond's Push Comes To Shove and Richard Thompson's Sweet Warrior (Rosebud is booking Richard's 1000 Years Of Popular Music tour) made the Top Ten lists in the Blues and Folk categories, respectively. Bill Frisell's studio project Floratone (featuring Lee Townsend, Matt Chamberlain and Tucker Martine) was named the #5 Jazz CD of the year. Congratulations to all. To purchase the CDs and help support Music In Schools Today at no extra cost, please click here. Amazon.com: Best Music of the Year 2007 >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Booker T. Jones and Jolie Holland recently teamed up to record the Louis Armstrong classic, 'What a Wonderful World.' The track is due to be released digitally by Anti- on Nov. 6th in celebration of 40 years since the song’s original release. The updated take on 'What a Wonderful World' will also feature the blues traditional 'It’s a Blessing' as a B-side collaboration. For more info, please check Anti- website >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
PBS will broadcast Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story as part of its Great Performances series Wednesday, August 1. The program, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, details the history of the legendary Memphis soul label, with appearances from Rosebud artists Booker T. Jones and Mavis Staples as well as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett and more. Booker T. & The MG's served as the house band for Stax, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary and relaunch this year. A web companion to Respect Yourself will launch July 25 at PBS Great Performance website. Please check local television listings for airtimes. Watch preview of "Respect Yourself" on YouTube, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Songs by Meshell Ndegeocello, Booker T. Jones, and The Staple Singers are featured in the film Talk To Me, the true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr., an ex-con who became one of Washington DC's most recognizable radio personalities in the 1960s. In a time of vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness, Petey found a way to "tell it like it is." The soundtrack CD features Booker T. & the MGs' "Hip Hug-Her" and Meshell Ndegeocello's cover of Eugene McDaniels' jazz-soul protest song, "Compared to What," originally made famous by Les McCann and (charter Rosebud artist) Eddie Harris. Ndegeocello worked with the film's composer Terence Blanchard on "Compared to What," which is the only newly recorded song in the film. Talk To Me stars Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen, Taraji P. Henson, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer and is set for nationwide release on July 27, 2007. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Booker T. Jones was featured recently on NPR's Fresh Air discussing his memories of the early days at Stax Records, his recent Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the new Stax 50th Anniversary 2 CD box set. The program ran nationwide on March 26 and can be heard online at the NPR website. Booker T. & the MG’s also made a historic performance at South by Southwest in Austin, TX earlier this month as part of Stax Records’ 50th anniversary celebration. The group was joined onstage by fellow Stax veterans including Isaac Hayes, Eddie Floyd and William Bell. In addition, Booker sat in with the Drive-By Truckers' Jason Isbell during an afternoon set at South by Southwest. Booker is currently working on material for a new solo album as well as playing tour dates with the MG's and his own solo band. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Booker T. Jones will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with seminal instrumental group Booker T. & the MG's at the Grammy Awards ceremony to take place on February 11, 2007. Receiving the award with him are guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, drummer Al Jackson (posthumously), and Lewie Steinberg, the group's original bassist. The group were million-sellers as one of the top instrumental outfits of the rock era with hits including "Green Onions," "Time Is Tight," and "Hang'Em High." Booker T. & the MGs also backed recordings by such artists as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, The Staple Singers, and Wilson Pickett and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Other artists honored with 2007 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMYs are Joan Baez, Maria Callas, Ornette Coleman, the Doors, the Grateful Dead and Bob Wills. Booker is currently working on his first recording of solo or MG's material since 1994, and 2007 tour dates in the US and Europe are planned. ... read more at press release >> • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rosebud artists Bettye LaVette, Mavis Staples, and Booker T. Jones are featured on the new Starbucks compilation CD, I'll Take You There - Voices in Classic Soul. Mavis Staples kicks off the CD singing lead on The Staple Singers' hit recording and title track, "I'll Take You There. "Bettye LaVette is featured on her 1965 recording of "Let Me Down Easy" while Booker T. Jones leads Booker T and the MGs on one of their best known hits, "Time is Tight." Other soul legends featured on the CD include Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway, and many more. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Rosebud artists John Hammond, Booker T. Jones, Pop Staples and Muddy Waters are given their due on Mojo Magazine's CD, "The Roots of Hendrix: 15 Tracks That Inspired the Legend". The CD, which is included with the December issue, is a collection of music that helped shape one of the world’s most influential guitar players. The CD features "So Many Roads, So Many Trains" by John Hammond, "It’s Your Thing" from Booker T. and the M.G.s, "What’d I Say" by Steve Cropper, Pop Staples & Albert King, and Muddy Waters’ "Hoochie Coochie Man." Notes on the CD reference John Hammond's advice to Jimi after they became friends playing together in the East Village. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Among the artists featured at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas June 4-6 are several Rosebud artists. J.J. Cale (whose songs "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" are among Clapton's biggest hits) will perform Saturday night. Robert Cray who co-wrote "Old Love" with Eric after Eric had covered Cray's "Bad Influence", will appear in an all star jam Saturday night with Eric, Buddy Guy and Jimmie Vaughan. Cray appears again Sunday in the Cotton Bowl with The Robert Cray Band. Also on the festival are Johnny A., performing early Sunday and Duke Robillard who performs as part of a blues clinic with Robert Jr. Lockwood and Honeyboy Edwards. Booker T. Jones will also perform along with the MGs during the Cotton Bowl show. The event is a benefit for Crossroads Rehabilitation Clinic in Antigua. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones appear in the film "Soul Comes Home: The Grand Opening Concert At The Stax Museum of American Soul Music" being shown nationally August 9 on select PBS stations. Both Mavis and Booker, along with Isaac Hayes and other former Stax recording artists, serve prominent roles in the film which includes artist interviews, historical footage and performances from the April grand opening concert of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, TN. Check local PBS listings for showtimes. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Booker T. Jones performed in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s band for their recently completed “Tour of America”. Joining Booker in the band was fellow MG’s bandmate, Donald “Duck” Dunn. Booker and Duck also recorded with Neil Young on his newly released CD, “Are You Passionate?” and are currently on tour with Neil in Europe.
The rest of the album has a relaxed, soulful kind of groove, from the direct Stax rhythm lifts of "You're My Girl," "Differently," and "Be With You" to the subtle textures of "She's a Healer," "Mr. Disappointment," and "Two Old Friends." Even "Let's Roll," Young's highly publicized paean to the heroic September 11 passengers on Flight 93, has a kind of chug that's made funkier by this particular rhythm section than it probably would have been in the hands of other players. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
Booker T. Jones on "Be Kind Rewind" Soundtrack
Rosebud Artists Honored on Amazon's Best Music of 2007
Booker T. Jones and Jolie Holland Collaborate on Remake of 'What a Wonderful World'
Booker T. Jones, Mavis Staples Featured On PBS' Great Performances
Film Talk To Me Features Songs By Rosebud Artists Meshell Ndegeocello, Booker T. Jones & The Staple Singers
Booker T. Jones On NPR's Fresh Air, Jams at SxSW
Booker T. Jones Honored with Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Rosebud Artists Bettye LaVette, Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones featured on Starbucks compilation CD, "I'll Take You There - Voices in Classic Soul"
John Hammond, Booker T. Jones, Pop Staples and Muddy Waters Featured On Mojo Magazine CD of Hendrix Influences
Rosebuds Gather For Clapton Benefit
Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones on PBS Special August 9
Booker T. Jones on tour with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young / Neil Young