CQAF Booker T. Jones

Sunday 30 April, 8.00pm
Tickets £20.00

After a Belfast show that has achieved legendary status, when we heard Booker T was passing through Ireland again, we couldn’t not book him.

It can be argued that it was Booker T. Jones who set the cast for modern soul music and is largely responsible for its rise and enduring popularity.

On classic Stax hits like Green Onions, Hang ‘Em High, Time Is Tight, and Melting Pot the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and winner of 4 GRAMMY Awards pushed the music’s boundaries, refined it to its essence and then injected it into the nation’s bloodstream.

Outside of the band, Jones made the charts as a solo artist who also lent his trademark keyboards to many artists ranging in genre from Ray Charles to Neil Young.

Booker more recently won back to back GRAMMY AWARDS in the category Best Pop Instrumental Album for his 2011 release The Road From Memphis where he is backed by the The Roots and for the 2009 album Potato Hole which features guests Neil Young and Drive By Truckers.

Booker’s current album Sound The Alarm is critically acclaimed and features collaborations with some of the finest talents in modern soul and R&B including Mayer Hawthorne, Anthony Hamilton, Vintage Trouble, Gary Clark, Jr. and more.

‘With…Sound The Alarm marking a brilliant return to Stax Records after 40 years, Jones is currently on tour. Catch him if you can, and change your plans to make it if you think you can’t.’ – NO DEPRESSION