Saturday, May 02, 2009

Down the 'Potato Hole' with Booker T

With backing from the Drive-By Truckers and guitar contributions from Neil Young on nine of the album’s ten tracks, Potato Hole is the rawest, funkiest music Booker T Jones has recorded since his archetypal hit “Green Onions.” Booker T plays organ, acoustic and electric guitar on Potato Hole and wrote seven of the albums songs, with one original by Truckers guitarist Mike Cooley, and covers of Tom Waits’ “Get Behind The Mule” and Outkast’s “Hey Ya” completing the set.
more HERE
sample music HERE and HERE

Related:
Booker T & the MG's w/Neil Young 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay'

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Pimp C dead in Hollywood Hotel

Homicide detectives are now at the Mondrian Hotel in LA investigating the death of rapper Pimp C.
Pimp C, real name Chad Butler -- and one half of the rap duo UGK, was found dead in a hotel room this morning. He was 33.
L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed.
UGK is best known for appearing on the Jay-Z track "Big Pimpin'" in 2000, and more recently with Outkast on the song "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)." Pimp C had just performed with fellow rapper Too Short at the "House of Blues" in L.A. on Saturday night.

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