It can be argued that it was Booker T. Jones who set the cast for
modern soul music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring
popularity. On classic Stax hits like “Green Onions,” “Hang
‘Em High,” “Time Is Tight,” and “Melting Pot” the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Musicians Hall of Fame inductee and GRAMMY
Lifetime Achievement Award recipient pushed the music’s boundaries,
refined it to its essence and then injected it into the nation’s
bloodstream. Sound the Alarm, the new album from Booker T, finds the
Hammond B3 organ master looking ahead yet again, laying down his
distinctive bedrock grooves amid a succession of sparkling
collaborations with some of contemporary R&B’s most gifted young
voices. Sound the Alarm also marks Booker T’s historic return to
Stax Records, the Memphis soul label the instrumentalist, bandleader,
producer, and songwriter helped put on the map during the 1960s, along
with his brilliant band, the MGs. Creatively, it’s another bold new
step in a career that has witnessed a striking resurgence in recent
years. Booker T took home Best Pop Instrumental Album GRAMMY Awards
for both 2010’s Potato Hole, his head-turning collaboration with The
Drive-By Truckers and 2012’s The Road From Memphis, his critically
acclaimed album with The Roots.
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