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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.