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The Very Best Of Booker T. & The MG's (CD)

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Booker T. & The MG's Artist Snapshot:

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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DISC 1 for The Very Best Of Booker T. & The MG's (CD) Album By Booker T. & The MG's (Artist)
1   Green Onions
2   Chinese Checkers
3   Groovin'
4   Soul Dressing
5   Boot-Leg
6   My Sweet Potato
7   Slim Jenkin's Place
8   Booker-Loo
9   Hip Hug-Her
10   Mo' Onions
11   Soul-Limbo
12   Hang 'Em High
13   Time Is Tight
14   Mrs. Robinson
15   Slum Baby
16   Melting Pot
 

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Title Note

Booker T. & The MG's: Booker T. Jones (trombone, piano, electric piano, organ); Steve Cropper (guitar, bass); Donald "Duck" Dunn, Lewis Steinberg (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).

Additional personnel: Charles "Packy" Axton (tenor saxophone); Floyd Newman (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet).

Producers: Booker T. & The MG's, Jim Stewart.

Compilation producer: Steve Greenberg.

Includes liner notes by Steve Greenberg.

Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot.

Let's make this simple: If you don't own any albums by this seminal Memphis groove collective, without whom what we nowadays refer to as "soul music" would have been impossible, buy this disc. If you've ever enjoyed a song by any Stax recording artist--Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, or Rufus Thomas, for example--chances are excellent that the MG's were the backing band. Their inimitable guitar/bass/drum/organ groove was the cornerstone and essence of the Memphis sound.

Rhino has done all music fans a favor by combining material from the two period-specific best-of compilations available (the early MG's Stax catalogue was sold to Atlantic, the later to Fantasy) on one 16-track set. The band's early singles, including "Groovin'," "Hip Hug-Her" and, of course, "Green Onions," are combined here with their late '60s hits such as "Hang 'em High" and "Time is Tight." Donald "Duck" Dunn and drummer Al Jackson's in-the-pocket locks, Steve Cropper's stinging guitar lines and Booker T. Jones' funkified organ create a sound that comes across as fresh and infectious today as it did in the early '60s.

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