As fêted by Paul Carrubba on KUTX’s Uptown Saturday Night, Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. turned 78 on Nov. 12. Sample highlights by the decade: Born in Memphis, 1944, he proved a musical prodigy by the Fifties. In 1962, his instrumental soul combo Booker T. & the M.G.s cut their trademark debut, Green Onions. In 1978 he produced Willie Nelson’s Grammy-winning bestseller Stardust. During the Eighties, he recorded three solo albums and charted, then in 1992, he entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2007, he notched the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to the pandemic, he wrote his memoir. Now in 2022, a return to Antone’s.