LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of Booker T. & the MGs whose thick bottom grooves anchored many of the classic soul hits from the 1960s, has died on tour in Japan, his ...

If you look up cool in the dictionary or, OK, Google it, these guys' pictures should be there. It may be hard to imagine three guys in their 60s still defining cool, but Booker T and the MGs do it, ...

AUGUST 1962: (L-R) Booker T. Jones on the organ, bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn, drummer Al Jackson and guitarist Steve Cropper of the R&B band Booker T. & The M.G.'s perform onstage in August 1962 Stax ...

What does an iconic soul and rhythm & blues bass player do in semiretirement? He jams out with AC/DC's lead singer, of course. The icon in question is Donald "Duck" Dunn, whose Rock and Roll Hall of ...

When Stax Records, the famed Memphis soul label, needed a bassist to accompany one of its A-list artists, it called on musician Donald "Duck" Dunn. Together with his childhood friend, guitarist Steve ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, the Stax label dominated soul, R&B, gospel, and related genres with a stable of artists who have since become iconic figures in the history ...

Visiting Lecturer in Music Ivan Tan discussed the relatively unknown cover of the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” by instrumental band Booker T. and the MG’s in a talk presented by the Department of Music at ...

A groove is a groove, no matter the decade. And so it was that some five decades after Eddie Floyd’s "634-5789" was a hit, a group of teenage girls headed toward the Jefferson Center stage on Thursday ...

From an early age, Booker T. Jones—“one of the legends of soul music” (The New Yorker)—was captivated by the magic of melody, rhythm, and harmony. So magnetic was the attraction, in fact, that by the ...

Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass player for the influential studio band Booker T. and the MGs, died this morning at the age of 70. Dunn was in Japan at the time, playing a series of shows at the Blue Note in ...