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Stax ProfilesBooker T. & the MG's
Release Date: 04/25/2006
Original Release:
2006
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 612146_CD
UPC # 025218861526
Label: Fantasy (distributor)
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Performer: Booker T. & the MG's
Distributor: Universal Distribution Notes: Booker T. & the MG's: Donald "Duck" Dunn, Lewis Steinberg (bass guitar); Al Jackson (drums); Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones. Personnel: Steve Cropper (guitar); Booker T. Jones (piano, organ); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums). Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantion. Liner Note Author: Elvis Costello. The Stax Records house band for most of the 1960s, the instrumental outfit Booker T. & The MG's were responsible for the distinctive sound of recordings by artists from Albert King to Otis Redding. The racially mixed group were a symbol of the musical innocence of the early '60s, and, while Stax's relaxed atmosphere couldn't survive the racial turmoil of the post-Martin Luther King assassination South, the MG's continued performing until 1972. This best-of is a representative selection of the band's eclectic '60s output, including their best-known hit, "Green Onions," as well as the gorgeous "Time Is Tight," and one of their many Beatles covers, "Lady Madonna" (the band devoted an entire album, 1970's MCLEMORE AVENUE, to re-recording the Fabs' ABBEY ROAD).
Booker T. & the MG's, led by soul organist Booker T. Jones, were the house band for much of the music that came out of Memphis in the 1960s on the Stax label. Their instrumental releases--typified by their minimalist classic "Green Onions"-- were the very definition of soulful economy, supple chops and laidback funk--truly regal stuff.
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Blakey, Art Brown, James Floyd, Eddie Johnson, Buddy King, Albert Laury, Booker T. McNeely, Big Jay Memphis Slim Shadows (The) Smith, Jimmy (Organ) Thomas, Rufus Turner, Ike Wray, Link
Similar Genres:
Stax/Southern Soul
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