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Booker T Jones chats about the blues!

Legendary Hammond organ player, songwriter & producer Booker T Jones shares how the classic 12 bar blues structure has influenced all his music including the track Green Onions.

Cerys's weekly round-up of the blues you need to hear, from all around the world and in all shapes and sizes!

This week Cerys welcomes the legendary Hammond Organ player Booker T Jones to share memories of growing up near Beale Street Memphis, the capital of blues music and how the classic 12 bar blues structure has influenced all his music, including the track Green Onions. Booker also talks about Stax Records, BB King, meeting the late Steve Cropper and demonstrates on the Hammond organ how he wrote Albert King's Born Under A Bad Sign the night before it was recorded!

Booker T Jones may be best known as the leader of Booker T & The MG’s. He's is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and the recipient of a Grammy lifetime achievement. Over the course of his career he's worked with Otis Redding, Albert King and more at Stax Records, as well as Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Bill Withers and many, many more.

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 2.

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57 minutes

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Mon 20 Apr 202621:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated

    I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your Tank

    • R&B from the Marquee.
    • Poppydisc.
    • 6.

  • Duke Robillard

    Blast Off! (feat. His All Star Band)

    • Blast Off!.
    • Nola Blue Records.
    • 7.

  • Terry Robb

    Hobbs Captein

    • Howlin' Waters.
    • New Folk Records.

  • Cat Clyde

    Hold My Hand

    • Mud Blood Bone.
    • Concord Records.
    • 5.

  • Fatoumata Diawara

    Nayan

    • Kanou EP.
    • World Circuit.
    • 3.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • Atlantic Soul (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Hip Hug Her

    • Stax.

  • Albert King

    Born Under A Bad Sign

    • The Hit Label LTD.

  • B.B. King

    The Thrill is Gone

    • Rock FM Guitarmanía (Various Artists).
    • Hit Label.

  • Laura Chavez

    Mind Your Step

  • Marty Wilde

    The Boogie Was King

    • Let's Rock This Place.
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • The Black Keys

    Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

    • Where There's Smoke, There's Fire.
    • Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records.
    • 1.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    The Chain

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.

  • Emma Wilson

    What Kind Of Love (feat. Don Bryant)

    • What Kind of Love.
    • Emma Wilson Music.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 Apr 202621:00
    BBC Radio 2