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Booker T & The MG's Soul music wasn't even a musical style when Booker T. & the MG's started making music together. But by the time they disbanded in 1972 they were one of the greatest reasons people remember Stax record label and the creation of soul music. Listening to hits by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Carla Thomas you can hear their tight, impeccable grooves. For that reason alone, they would deserve their spot in rock & roll's hall of fame. As a band that featured two blacks and two whites playing as tightly together as possible, they also set a somewhat under-appreciated example of both how integrated, self-contained bands could succeed, and how both black and white musicians could play funky soul music cutting classics like “Green Onions,” “Time Is Tight,” and “Hang 'em High.” Booker T. Jones began working at Stax Records in Memphis as a saxophonist in 1960. Steve Cropper, who many of today’s guitar players listened to and were inspired by, and Donald Dunn, who had been a member of the Mar-Keys with Cropper, played on the groups' 1961 instrumental hit “Last Night”, which laid the groundwork for this new ‘Soul’ sound. Al Jackson joined soon after. In the early '60