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Minus Booker T. Jones in addition to Steve Cropper, the rest of the associates of Booker T. & the MG’s (drummer Al Jackson Jr. and bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn) documented one record for Stax because the MG’s, with substitutes Carson Whitsett on keyboards and Bobby Manuel on electric guitar.

Al Jackson, Jr. was the wonderful drummer who held Booker T. & the MG’s in-line, both independently recordings in addition to on a large number of classes for performers contracted to Hi there and Stax Information. Created in Memphis in 1934, he developed maker Willie Mitchell in the Hi there …

Because the bassist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Donald “Duck” Dunn became, like Adam Jamerson at Motown, the person who supplied a groove for a whole era to dance to. In Dunn’s case it had been the renowned Memphis record label Stax/Volt, where he laid down basslines for spirit …