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  • Clint Eastwood to Booker T. & the M.G.’s: “Hang ‘Em High”
    Clint Eastwood to Booker T. & the M.G.’s: “Hang ‘Em High”

    In an earlier piece, I spoke about sharing with you, dear reader, a three-part homage to one of the biggest musical influences in my young life in Chicago—Booker T. & the M.G.’s. In Part 1, I touched on the first pair of tunes from the band that grabbed my attention and affected me for the…

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  • Booker T. & The M.G.’s: a Tribute to the Beatles
    Booker T. & The M.G.’s: a Tribute to the Beatles

    A 12-year-old kid is at a local Woolworth’s store on Ashland Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. It’s the early ‘70s, and he’s spending his few allowance dollars on cheap “cut-out” vinyl albums, shelved at the front end of the checkout counter, neatly tiered, four rows high and ten albums deep. That twelve-year-old was…

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