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Dropbox locations can be found at opioid response. info. Welcome to the Bitter Southerner Podcast from Georgia Public Broadcasting and the

magazine I edit The Bitter Southerner. My name is Chuck Reese and

this is the very first of six episodes that will make up season

one of this podcast. Just a note before we began, there is a little bit of explicit language.

You know the groove,

you know the groove, don't you?

Most everybody knows it. But when I ask people who made the record,

I usually get blank stares. Well, the name of the song is Green Unions, and the band is Booker T and the MGs. To me the MGs exemplify

the very best of southern culture. They represented what happens when

southerners are willing to cross the barriers of race and

class that have kept our region's people apart for so long. In 1962, four young men in Memphis, two white and two black, formed Booker T

and the MGs, and they became the house band at a studio called Stax Records.

So every time you've shaken your booty

to

every time you've shaken your booty to Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett or Sam and Dave,

you were shaking it to the MGs. Back then, the Jim Crow South wouldn't let the MGs have a meal

together in public, but so be it. Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, and Duck Dunn ignored the color lines and the cultural barriers at their

personal peril because they knew they had it in them to make something beautiful.

The funky sounds of Book or Tea and the MGs are just one gift the American South is given to the rest of the world and that's why

the bitter southerner podcast is here. Tell you stories about how and why the

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