Organ Donor.(Potato Hole)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)

The organist, songwriter, and arranger extraordinaire Booker T. Jones is one of the legends of soul music. A multi-instrumentalist as a child and later a student in music composition at Indiana University, he went on to head up the Stax house band, Booker T. & the MG's, which backed everyone from Otis Redding to Rufus Thomas, and to co-write hits like "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)" and "I Love You More Than Words Can Say." Jones also released a number of acclaimed records of his own material--his catalogue goes much deeper than the immortal "Green Onions," and even includes an album-length tribute to "Abbey Road," called "McLemore Avenue"--and, after leaving the group in the early seventies, became a top-drawer session player and producer, responsible for Bill Withers's "Ain't No Sunshine" and Willie Nelson's "Stardust," among other records.

Jones's new solo album, "Potato Hole" (Anti-), is his first in two decades, and throughout he is backed not only by the Southern-rock stalwarts Drive-By Truckers but also by Neil Young. If this sounds more like rock-and-roll than Southern soul, that's because it is. The group establishes its credentials ...