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Booker T of the MG's: Time Is Tight

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Influence of the Church on My Music

The church, I think, was the main, the strongest influence in the musical makeup. One of the other influences you mentioned is when you wrote Green Onions. You said it's because you'd studied Bach counterpoint. So that's what the green onions came for. Instead of... The blues came in. And then the changes are just regular blues changes we played all the time.

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