Booker T. Jones: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

[cft353]

Not to be a dink - Booker T. does play the B-3 wonderfully - but he recorded "Green Onions" on an M-3...

[noelia19861000]

I.M.P.R.E.S.I.O.N.A.N.T.E. es una orquesta en si mismo... un encanto escuchar su historia de cómo aprendió , una delicia escucharlo

[3OVERdue]

True American original! Cropper and Duck made it a section to remember! They blew everybody out of the water at Monterey, '67, Hendrix included. Tight and funky as hail!

[carpediem081791]

i have my laptop hooked up to some speakers right now and the sub-woofer shakes the house like crazy.

[herbseitzer]

I learned a lot of Booker's song. Back n the day I'd buy his records, take them home & learn them all. I play by ear & I have a pretty good ear but even though some of his songs R relatively "easy" it still took me a while to get 'em down perfect. Note by note I learned a lot of his music. I can read & write cord charts but that's about it. I spent many many hrs. Sitting in front of my B3. Booker T. & Jimmy Smith are my favorites. U can go to YouTube & just type in herbiethebarber just li

[BhanuKer]

Wonder if Justin Bieber or Kanye West could do that.

Mr. Jones actually got a paper route to be able to pay for lessons on the Hammond? Now that itself is a lesson to today's youngsters.

[ThisSentenceIsFalse]

Where have all the old masters gone? Oh, wait a minute...here's one right here!

[ampmike68]

Cannot stop showing people this!!!!! Simple the best!

[GwenPippin]

YES!!!

[plm3332]

first heard this on the sand lot:)

[ricopaulson1]

this guy was born with hammond in his hands

[johnfryiv]

Y'all know that Green Onions is the 85th most popular piece of music ever written! And Jones wrote it when he was 17. Kinda puts him up there with Bach and such doncha think?

[dvanasek]

The man who gave us one of many Hammond organ classics that will never die, Mr Jones. If you kind folks get some extra time , please check out my Green Onions tribute to the man. watch?v=Khs5T46YFGY

[antiemo666777]

damn police sirens at 1:48

[TheDanification]

wow I never knew that Booker T wrote born under a bad sign...i respect him so much

[MrBourbonbosher]

He discovered the B3 at Orleans Street, Memphis Tennessee. You couldn't make that shit up.

[Coasterfanatic08]

The hair on my neck... Born Under a Bad Sign... god that was incredible

[angiepippi]

Thank you for having the Beatles, Bee Gees and First Aid Kit on the bookshelf behind Mr. Jones.

[TheDuckmonk]

Old school emo

[billrhea]

Love the B3



[greenburner4]

saw him for the first time at Rock the Garden yesterday...life changing...seriously, I'll never forget it. what'd I do to be his friend: pay him, clean his b3 whenever he wasn't playing, let him walk all over me, etc. well done booker t.!

[greenburner4]

Saw him for the first at Rock the Garden yesterday...life changing...seriously, I'll never forget it. what i'd do to have him be my friend: pay him, clean his b3, let him walk all over me, etc. well done booker t.!

[roomsforghost]

I can die now...........

[TheJohnBrian]

Classic and a Human Class Act... Love the fact he stood outside himself, the beautiful and supremely talented human that he is, and paid a compliment to the NPR gang at the end. Bravo!

[angiepippi]

I was looking for Green Onions the other day and could not remember the name. Thanks again NPR for solving life's little mysteries. Mr. Jones is beautiful and amazing here. I love the stories almost as much as the music.

[Lorenzofire]

THIS IS GREAT



[GotsTricks]

Great job guys getting him in there.

also, MF DOOM!

[MistaMojoRisin]

Thank you soo much for this!! Saved 'nd made my Day!

[sweetrevelation]

Green Onions is used in a Quentin Tarantino film, I'm sure, as well as the film "A Single Man" . . . and so many others, commercials, on Rolling Stone's Top 500 greatest songs of all time, etc. It's a classic :)

[Tube4ward]

Sandlot

[Mariekesone]

I would recognize this out of anything...

This is Great!

Hadn't heard Born under a Bad Sign which he wrote...Great! Great!

A Grateful listener!....:-)

[paintballguy113]

Sounds really good. Love NPR tiny desk

[esstaffe]

best spent 17.53 of the day

[WiLKORadio]

YEAH IT WAS USED IN SOME WENDY'S COMMERCIALS AND I THINK IN SOME MOVIES TOO , DEFINITELY HIS MOST RECOGNIZABLE TRACK.............. sorry for yelling wish i had that book of beatles pics behind booker

[jec5476]

Give your sound person a raise. That Hammond sounds amazing on this.

[jaksspring97]

I didn't realize i knew any of his music, but "Green Onions" was instantly recognizable. I'm not even sure how i know it... commercials maybe?