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Teen undie9/10/2023 In 2012, the filmmaker Susanna Vapnek completed a short documentary on Teenie Hodges, entitled, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, A Portrait of a Memphis Soul Original. He has also recorded with Alvin "Youngblood" Hart. In 2005 Teenie Hodges recorded with Cat Power on her successful album The Greatest. They also recorded comeback albums with both Syl Johnson and Al Green. He contributed one acoustic song ('Rock Me Baby') to Beale Street Saturday Night released in 1979. The Hodges brothers, with Grimes, recorded the 1976 LP On the Loose, as Hi Rhythm, and in 1994 issued Perfect Gentlemen. Hodges continued to record and tour as guitarist in the Hi Rhythm Section, often with major soul acts like Syl Johnson and O.V. 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)", " L-O-V-E (Love)" and " Full of Fire". 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. 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. When Jackson left in 1966, Hodges recruited Howard Grimes to replace him. Mitchell used Hodges as a central component of the Hi Rhythm Section, which also included Leroy, Charles, drummer Al Jackson, Jr., and pianist Archie Turner, Mitchell's stepson. He was encouraged by Memphis band leader and record producer Willie Mitchell. His credits as a songwriter include " Take Me to the River", " Love and Happiness", " L-O-V-E (Love)", and " Here I Am (Come and Take Me)".īorn in Germantown, Tennessee, Hodges began playing guitar at age 12 in his father's band, the Germantown Blue Dots, before joining his brothers Leroy and Charles in their group, the Impalas. Mabon Lewis " Teenie" Hodges (Novem– June 22, 2014) was an American musician known for his work as a rhythm and lead guitarist and songwriter on many of Al Green's soul hits, and those of other artists such as Ann Peebles and Syl Johnson, on Hi Records in the 1970s.
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