'Years Gone By': A Stax Gem From Blues Guitarist Albert King

'Years Gone By': A Stax Gem From Blues Guitarist Albert King

In early 1969, the 45-year-old Albert King was back in Stax Records Studios, located in an old movie theatre at 926 East McLemore Avenue in South Memphis. He was there along with Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, and Al Jackson Jr to record what would become his third album, and his first LP proper, Years Gone By. Listen to Albert King’s Years Gone By now. The four-man backing group are, of course, better known as Booker T & The MG’s, an…