BACK STORY: MEMPHIS CONNECTION

● Matt Berninger first hooked up with Booker T. Jones (above, left) when the latter asked the former to be among the guests on his 2011 album The Road From Memphis, specifically to duet with Sharon Jones on Representing Memphis. “There were all these people coming around,” Berninger recalls, having been particularly impressed by Booker T.’s skills as a studio ringmaster. “All The Dap-Kings and Questlove were there. Lauryn Hill was in and out and Lou Reed had just left the building.”