Booker T Jones' 10th album brings him back to Stax, the Memphis-based label that gave him his first hit, the preposterously slinky instrumental Green Onions, and employed him as a house musician for most of the 1960s. There are songs on Sound the Alarm that sound as though they could have been written back then: Feel Good actually feels a bit lazy because of it, but Fun is just that, a three-minute party of stomping percussion, irrepressible bass and jittery, dancing Hammond riffs, while 66 Impala is blissfully cheesy, with organ and sax darting across rattlesnake Latin rhythms. For every step back, however, there are two steps forward: most of the tracks find Jones collaborating with some hot young artist, be it Bill Withers' daughter Kori on Watch You Sleeping, her voice billowing like silk across the rough cotton of Jones' baritone; or R&B singer Luke James, creamily calling out infidelity in All Over the Place; or guitarist Gary Clark Jr in Austin Blues Idea, an instrumental that isn't so much a duet as a chewing-the-fat, setting-the-world-to-rights get-together over whiskey after dark.