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  Artist Talks Featuring Crosstown Arts Residents

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  Say It Loud: The Overlook Quartet

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  Jay McK

  01/19/25 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

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For their penultimate album on Stax Records, Booker T. & the MGs stretched the boundaries of the Memphis Sound, tackling the Beatles’ masterpiece LP, Abbey Road. Using the newfound artistic freedom granted since Stax had split with Atlantic Records, this is the band’s most complex and adventurous recording, perfectly timed for the rise of FM radio and music that need not fit on one side of a 45.

The group also debuted a new look for Joel Brodsky’s iconic album cover, trading in their matching mohair suits and manicured coiffes for bell-bottoms, fringe jackets, and scruffy beards.

Joining series host Dr. Charles Hughes (Rhodes College) will be members of the MDs, a Memphis-based Booker T. & the MGs tribute band that performed the entire McLemore Avenue album at the Stax Museum in 2017.  This October, the band rearranged another Beatles classic, Revolver, for a capacity Crosstown Arts crowd.

Free and open to the public