Booker T. & The MG's

The Sarasota Blues Festival is proud to welcome the greatest soul instrumental band of all time featuring Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame inductees Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn to the 1999 Sarasota Blues Fest.

Booker T. & The MG's boast an impressive list of credits and hits. In addition to the array of seminal artists they have backed up in the 60's, such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, and Rufus and Carla Thomas, among others, Booker T. & The MG's are perhaps best known for thier #1 Billboard hit of 1962 "Green Onions". Guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Duck Dunn are also members of the Blues Brothers Band, of film and recording fame. In addition, individual members have collaborated with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson, John Fogerty, Natalie Merchant and many others.

Credits & Highlights

• House band for Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary PBS-TV special and Columbia CD / Video

• House band for the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame HBO Grand Opening Concert, Columbia CD

• Grammy nominated 9-cd Staxx/Volt box set

• 1993 worldwide tour backing Neil Young

• 1994 Columbia Records release, "That's the Way it Should Be"

• 1995 Grammy Award

• 1998 Booker T. & The MG's box set "Time is TIght", Stax/Fantasy

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