I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons.

I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons.
BOOKER T. JONES

Age Jobs Records
I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.
BOOKER T. JONES

Amazing Chosen Records Things
The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones’ arrangement of “One Mint Julep.”
BOOKER T. JONES

Arrangement Player Rays Reason Trying
I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make.
BOOKER T. JONES

Heard Make Struck Thought

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