I used to play those Booker T and the MGs albums endlessly. Then all the Otis Redding!! Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave!!
Thank you Steve
Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper dies
Today’s Music to keep me SAnnnnneeee in Isolation – Sam and Dave
Today’s Music to keep me SANE in Isolation – Booker T and the MGs
It all started for me with that fabulous ‘Green Onions’, recorded in 1962. An R&B classic.
It knocked me out when I heard it. They were a fabulously tight band and certainly made a statement back in the early sixties both as the Stax house band behind all those brilliant Soul acts and the fact that they were a multicultural band. I just loved Steve Cropper’s guitar sound.
When I was in Memphis I visited Stax Studios. Awesome.
Photography – Mississippi and Memphis Rock Music – Sun Studio, Graceland, Stax, Tupelo, Elvis etc.
This is the hotel we stayed at in Memphis.
This is Sun Studios with its Pink Cadillac outside. Where Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Sonny Burgess and Billy Lee Riley recorded.
This is the Gibson guitar factory
This is BB King’s Blues club in Memphis on Beale Street
Highway 61 the home of the Blues. Where Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads and Son House taught him how to p;lay.
On to Nashville – home of Country
The Ryman – home of the Grand ole Opry where Elvis performed
Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame
Elvis’s Cabin in Tupelo where he grew up.
Graceland
Photography – A few photos of Memphis
BB King – he was alive at the time but he never showed up. Now the thrill has gone.
I believe they make guitars
Inside BB King’s where the tables are painted with Blues guys.
Stax where Otis Redding, Aretha Franklyn and Booker T & the MGs recorded.
Round the corner from Stax Records
Photography – Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country & R&B in the USA. Stax, Sun, Graceland, Nashville, BB King, Elvis
This is the hotel we stayed at in Memphis.
This is Sun Studios with its Pink Cadillac outside. Where Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Sonny Burgess and Billy Lee Riley recorded.
This is the Gibson guitar factory
This is BB King’s Blues club in Memphis on Beale Street
Highway 61 the home of the Blues. Where Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads and Son House taught him how to p;lay.
On to Nashville – home of Country
The Ryman – home of the Grand ole Opry where Elvis performed
Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame
Elvis’s Cabin in Tupelo where he grew up.
Graceland