I was particularly sad to hear of his passing. Dunn, as a member of Booker T & The M.G.'s, played a major role in my youth, for not only was this a group that made some classic recordings of their own, they were, even more importantly, the house band at Stax Studio in Dunn's home city, originators of the seminal 'Stax sound', backing some of the true giants of Soul – Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett, to name but some of the artists they worked with. Dunn's bass underpins so many singles I forever fell in love with as a boy back in the late '60s – released on the iconic Stax and Atlantic labels, which my brother (who's 10 years older than me) was particularly partial to, being a Soul loving scooter riding Mod at the time.
Dunn would be known by a subsequent generation via his appearance, alongside Steve Cropper, in the 1980 film 'The Blues Brothers', where he was a member of the band. Apart from Soul / black music artists Dunn also recorded with the likes of Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks and Bob Dylan.