An Exclusive Double Bill: MACEO AND BOOKER T.
FOUNDATIONS OF A SOUND
Friday, 2/29/08, 8 pm
Page Auditorium
$42 • $34 • $25 • $5*
Maceo and Booker T. are the two most important sidemen in the history of soul music. They’re also solo artists whose funk and soul-suffused performances continue to leave audiences in awe.
Maceo was born and still lives in Kinston, N.C., and for years led James Brown’s legendary band; he later joined George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic and has (most recently) toured with Prince. His solo career has been similarly amazing, punctuated by swinging, marathon shows that leave listeners breathless and transformed.
Booker T. arrived at Stax records in Memphis as a teenager, and before he hit 20 his group, Booker T. & the MGs, had scored a top-10 single and begun transforming the color of popular music in America. Jones wrote, sang, or produced many of the great songs that came out of Stax in the early days, but then left for L.A., and has gone on to expand his influence even further: he’s worked as arranger, musical director, or production scientist on a handful of contemporary music’s most important albums. The quality of his post-Stax collaborators—Bill Withers, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson—plus a recent Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, speak volumes about a man nearly always at the center of a deep groove.
“Blow your horn, Maceo!”
—James Brown
Maceo on the web:
www.maceoparker.com
www.myspace.com/parkermaceo
Booker T. on the web:
www.bookert.com
www.myspace.com/bookertjones