Booker T: Original soul rebel

He was a central figure in the Stax sound of the 60s, but Booker T always wanted to play his own tunes. He tells Richard Williams how he found his musical identityThe first time Booker T Jones set his eyes on a Hammond B3 organ, it was one of three items of walnut furniture in the dining room of his piano teacher in Memphis, Tennessee. The nine-year-old boy would sit on the swing seat on the porch of the house, less than a minute away from his family's home, waiting for his piano lesson with Mrs...

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