Lewie Steinberg is an American

United States

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 musician best known as the original bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 player for soul music

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 group Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones , Steve Cropper , Lewie Steinberg , and Al Jackson, Jr....

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Steinberg was in the group from 1962 to 1964. He is featured on "Green Onions

Green Onions

Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October of 1962. It reached number 33 on the Pop Albums chart in the month of its release...

", its B-side, "Behave Yourself," and the Green Onions album. He recorded one more album with the band, Soul Dressing

Soul Dressing

Soul Dressing was the second album by soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in March 1965.-Track listings:All songs written by Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T...

in 1965. Unlike the first album, every song but one on Soul Dressing was an original. When Steinberg stepped aside, Donald "Duck" Dunn took over on bass.

Steinberg was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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 in 1992 and in 2007 received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

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. Steinberg currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

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On November 14, 2010, Lewie Steinberg, along with several other members of his family, received a Brass Note on Beale Street's Walk of Fame. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Grandpa_accepting_Brass_Note_on_Beale.jpg

Discography

Green Onions (Stax

Stax Records

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• Green Onions
• Rinky Dink
• I Got A Woman
• Mo' Onions
• Twist And Shout
• Behave Yourself
• Stanger On The Shore
• Lonely Avenue
  Lonely Avenue
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• One Who Really Loves You
• I Can't Sit Down
• A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
• Comin' Home Baby

Soul Dressing (Stax

Stax Records

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• Soul Dressing
• Tic Tac Toe
• Big Train
• Jellybread
• Aw' Mercy
• Outrage
• Night Owl Walk
• Chinese Checkers
• Home Grown
• Mercy Mercy
• Plum Nellie
• Can't Be Still

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