While in town for recording sessions, Stax Records musicians stayed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Martin Luther King was assassinated. Booker T. Jones says musicians used the Lorraine Motel as a central point for meeting and creating music.
Booker T. Jones
An inductee of both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, Jones documents his life in his 2019 autobiography “Jones dove into the world of music as a child growing up in Memphis in the 1950s and 1960s. His mother and grandmother played classical piano at home. Out on the streets and on the radio, he listened to Memphis blues.
His first instrument was the oboe. As a fourth grader, he was able to join the high school band as an oboe player, “because no one else would play that instrument. It’s a very difficult instrument,” he says. “Difficult to make the reeds. Difficult to understand. Difficult to get your fingers in the right place.”
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