Mon, Apr 20th, 2009
NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - He led one of the greatestrecord-label house bands of all time, wrote a rock classic, isenshrined in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and received alifetime Grammy award.
Now Booker T. Jones has recorded his first solo album in 20years -- not the funky soul that Stax Records fans would expectfrom the organist whose band backed Otis Redding, Sam & Daveand Carla Thomas, but funky rock with some help on guitars fromNeil Young and the southern rock band Drive-By Truckers.
The disc, which will be released on Tuesday, April 21, iscalled "Potato Hole" after the hiding place under thefloorboards of plantation shacks where slaves used to keep alittle extra food.
"This potato hole is my potato hole, the place where I havedeposited my ideas. All my stuff," Jones told Reuters.
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