180 Gram Vinyl! Rock & Roll Hall of Famers! Includes "Green Onions", "Mo' Onions" & More!
Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson, Jr. (drums). In the 1960s, as members of the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists such as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. They also released instrumental records under their own name, such as the 1962 hit single "Green Onions". As originators of the unique Stax sound, the group was one of the most prolific, respected, and imitated of their era. By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Having two white members (Cropper and Dunn), Booker T. & the M.G.'s was one of the first racially integrated rock groups, at a time when soul music, and the Memphis music scene in particular, were generally considered the preserve of black culture.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Features:
180 Gram Vinyl
Direct Metal Master
Original Recording Remastered
Made in the Holland
Selections:
Side A:
1. Green Onions
2. Rinky-Dink
3. I Got A Woman
4. Mo' Onions
5. Twist And Shout
6. Behave Yourself
Side B:
1. Stranger On The Shore
2. Lonely Avenue
3. One Who Really Loves You
4. I Can't Sit Down
5. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
6. Comin' Home Baby
Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson, Jr. (drums). In the 1960s, as members of the house band of Stax Records, they played on hundreds of recordings by artists such as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. They also released instrumental records under their own name, such as the 1962 hit single "Green Onions". As originators of the unique Stax sound, the group was one of the most prolific, respected, and imitated of their era. By the mid-1960s, bands on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to sound like Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
Having two white members (Cropper and Dunn), Booker T. & the M.G.'s was one of the first racially integrated rock groups, at a time when soul music, and the Memphis music scene in particular, were generally considered the preserve of black culture.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
Features:
180 Gram Vinyl
Direct Metal Master
Original Recording Remastered
Made in the Holland
Selections:
Side A:
1. Green Onions
2. Rinky-Dink
3. I Got A Woman
4. Mo' Onions
5. Twist And Shout
6. Behave Yourself
Side B:
1. Stranger On The Shore
2. Lonely Avenue
3. One Who Really Loves You
4. I Can't Sit Down
5. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
6. Comin' Home Baby
