Mariner, Ackroyd and Belushi didn’t create a blues band. The band, as Ackroyd said, was the best house band in the world. They were basically the MGs (Memphis Group). Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn.
Riccus, they were the band in two of the songs you mentioned. Booker T and the MGs. Steve wrote the music and contributed to the lyrics to Mustang Sally and Knock On Wood. Play one then play the other one backwards.
Speaking of “playing one backwards”, don’t miss booker t & the mg’s beatles cover:. “mclemore avenue”
classic memphis sounds
LOL. Back in 1967 the Tommy James and the Shondells actually 'wrote' one of their follow up hits in that manner.
When the Tommy and the guys in the band were going to listen to the play back of I Think We're Alone Now, they inadvertently put the reel-to-reel tape on upside down. That means it played backwards. The song writers thought the chord progression backwards was just as good as it was forward and wrote lyrics to it with help from Tommy and the Shondells.
The resulting hit became the song Mirage.