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Soul legend Booker T guests

Soul legend Booker T joins Jools and the band for the first in a brand new series, playing live and picking some of his favourite records.

Back in the studio for a new series, Jools and the band are joined by Memphis soul legend Booker T Jones.

Booker will be playing live with Jools, picking some of his favourite records and looking back over a career that spans an amazing seven decades!

He'll be talking about his days at Stax records where, as the founder of Booker T and The MGs, he played on every record that Otis Redding ever made, and about their own hits, classics like "Green Onions", "Soul Limbo" and "Time Is Tight".

And he'll be revealing how he was hooked out of an algebra lesson to play on his first record and why his mum wouldn't let him go on tour with Duke Ellington! Well, he was only 14 at the time...

Plus there'll be the usual Jools jiggery-pokery involving old records, new records, CDs, 78s, cheap innuendo and a time travelling aardvark that lives in the vast caverns below the studios...

57 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 Sep 2013 23:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Little Richard

    Hey Hey Hey hey

    • Heavy Sugar.
    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • FVTD0051.

  • Roosevelt Sykes

    Been Through The Mill

    • Let Me Tell You About the Blues - Chicago.
    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • FVTDO12.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    The Great Speckled Bird

    • The Million Dollar Quartet.
    • Charly.
    • SNAD 551.

  • Louis Armstrong

    In The Glooming

    • C'est Ci Bon -Satchmo in the Forties.
    • Proper.
    • P1193.

  • Jools Holland Feat Booker T

    BLUES FOR NEW ORLEANS

    • Rocking Horse.
    • Rhino.
    • 5249833772.

  • Booker T/Jay James

    Broken Heart

    • Sound the Alarm.
    • Stax.
    • B00DCIPD5O.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Green Onions

    • GREEN ONIONS.
    • ATLANTIC.
    • 7567-822552.

  • Willie Nelson

    GEORGIA ON MY MIND

    • LEGEND: THE BEST OF.
    • Sony/BMG.
    • promo-promo.

  • Tom Jones

    It's Not Unusual

    • TOM JONES.
    • DERAM.
    • 820-772-2.

  • Booker T with Jools Holland and band

    Fun

  • Lauryn Hill

    Everything is Everything

    • Everything Is Everything.
    • Columbia.
    • 6675-745.

  • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

    Something

    • Single.
    • Stax.
    • STA-0073.

  • Booket T Feat Estelle

    Can't Wait

    • Sound The Alarm.
    • Stax.
    • 0888072341210.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Sep 2013 23:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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