06/29/2014 This Soulful Sunday has been a day of reflection on all those great artist and friends we have lost.. I dedicate this Soulful Sunday to one of the best Guitarist and songwriters I have ever produced and worked with MR Maboon Teenie Hodges.. Voice of Memphis Music,, Cotton Row Music & Records One tune that Will constantly live on is one Teenie co wrote with AL Green Love and Happiness TEENIE HODGES RIP 06/22/2014 MY friend and great guitarist MR. Teenie Hodges Mabon Lewis Teenie Hodges (June 3, 1946 – June 22, 2014) was a Memphis, Tennessee musician, best known for his work as rhythm and lead guitarist and songwriter on many of Al Greens popular soul hits, and those of other artists such as Ann Peebles and Syl Johnson, on Hi Records in the 1970s.Born in Germantown, Tennessee, Hodges began playing guitar at age 12 in his fathers band, the Germantown Blue Dots, before joining his brothers Leroy and Charles in their group, the Impalas. He was encouraged by local band leader and record producer Willie Mitchell. Mitchell used Hodges as a central component of the Hi Rhythm Section, which also included Leroy, Charles, drummer Al Jackson, and pianist Archie Turner, Mitchells stepson.When Jackson left in 1966, Hodges recruited Howard Grimes to replace him.Two of his compositions Take Me to the River and Love and Happiness, both co-written with Green, have been covered by numerous other international artists, including Al Jarreau, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Talking Heads, O.V. Wright, David Sanborn, Toots & the Maytals, Canned Heat, Foghat, Levon Helm, Syl Johnson, Annie Lennox, Delbert McClinton, Mitch Ryder, Tom Jones, Graham Central Station, Living Colour, blues artist Willie Cobbs, Denise LaSalle, and others. He also co-wrote several other popular hits with songwriters like Isaac Hayes, Willie Mitchell, and Al Green, including I Take What I Want, Oh Me, Oh My, Here I Am (Come and Take Me) and Full of Fire. Hodges continued to record and tour as guitarist in the Hi Rhythm Section, often with major soul acts like Syl Johnson and O.V. Wright. The Hodges brothers, with Grimes, recorded the 1976 LP On the Loose, as Hi Rhythm, and in 1994 issued Perfect Gentlemen. They also recorded comeback albums with both Syl Johnson and Al Green. In 2005 Teenie Hodges recorded with Cat Power on her successful album The Greatest.[3] He has also recorded with Alvin Youngblood Hart.He had eight children: Valencia Hodges, Reginald Hodges, Shonte Stokes, Sheila Hodges, Cherie Hodges, Tabitha Gary, Inga Black, and Mabon L. Hodges II. His nephew is rapper/actor Aubrey Drake Graham. Teenie was the uncle of jazz musician Anthony Lofton.In March 2014, Hodges was taken to a Dallas hospital for pneumonia, following an appearance at Austins South by Southwest music festival. He died there on June 22, 2014, from complications of emphysema. He was 68 A dear dear Friend and great Guitarist.. whom I spent many a day in the studio just he and I recording laughing talking and enjoying MEMPHIS.. RIP Mabon Teenie Hodges Mabon Teenie Hodges: A Portrait of a Memphis Soul Original. Below is just one of the many singles I produced on Teenie and played with him.. In Later life he spent more time enjoying his fame but his life caught up to him in TEXAS recently an d he made it Back to MEMPHIS and friends & Family but has now gone on to play other venues.. I am crying while I type this I think for myself more then those who I have lost over these last few years.. LIFE was so great starving in LA and living at the TROP.. having the privilege ad honor to work with greats like Teenie and other just fine fine tasteful players.. Teenie you definitely where one of a kind and I will miss you and continue to love you.. every time I hear your intro on Love and Happiness or Take me to the river I will remember you and how lucky I was to be able to call you a friend and to have had that opportunity to work with you.. TRAVEL WELL>> feel no pain and PLAY so when it is late and quiet on the mountain the guitar That I am hearing is yours with grace and style you gave us a signature sound that no one but you had *)O(* I WILL MISS YOU and promise never to forget you or the great times and memories I had being with you and working together.. LOVE & HAPPINESS.. MY friend and brother in arms Wikipedia, IMDB, ASK, Goggle, Voice Of Memphis Music, Rock & Roll hall of Fame, Cotton Row Music & Records, br toad, blsfilm LLC, )O( Barry Shankman youtu.be/hsU6_eSG4k4
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