RIP Memphis soul music great Mabon "Teenie" Hodges
Guitarist collaborated with Al Green, Ann Peebles, Cat Power.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported yesterday that Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, the Al Green and Hi Records guitarist who co-wrote "Take Me To The River," "Love and Happiness" and "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)," has died at age 68.
Hodges, 68, died in Dallas from complications of emphysema. He was taken ill with pneumonia after the SXSW music and film conference in Austin, Texas this year, where he was featured in two films, Martin Shore's intergenerational Memphis music doc Take Me To The River, and Susanna Vapnek's Mabon "Teenie" Hodges: Portrait Of A Memphis Soul Original.
The trailer for the latter film is below, as are clips of songs Hodges played on with Green, as well as Ann Peebles, and Cat Power, with whom he collaborated on the singer's 2006 album The Greatest. (That's Hodges prowling the the bar in an open necked shirt in Robert Gordon's video for "Lived In Bars.") The Commercial Appeal's obituary is here.
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