"Blue Eyed Soul Day 2"
- Watch the clip of Booker T. and the MGs playing "Green Onions." In your notebooks, or looseleaf books, write a reaction to their performance.
- How do you think Booker T. and the MGs embody what Dan Penn likes about Soul music? What aspects of the song, the performance, or the group presentation to back up your answer.
- The kind of interactions between the white and black creative communities that Penn treasured were complicated interactions. In the late 1960s many walls separated the black and white population.
- Watch an excerpt of an interview with Jim Stewart, the founder of Stax Records, the label that released Booker T. and the MGs' recordings.
- Encourage students to reflect freely on what they heard in the interview.
- Did something happen in music culture, in the worlds of men like Dan Penn and Jim Stewart, that was different from life in the culture at large?
