The Mar-Keys, Booker T, The MG's - Memphis Soul Beat - Booker T & The Mgs Meet the Mar - Keys (2013)

Tracklist

01. Last Night
02. Night Before
03. Morning After
04. Diana
05. Burnt Biscuits
06. About Noon
07. Sack O Woe
08. Foxy
09. One Degree North
10. Pop Eye Stroll
11. Po' Dunk
12. Whot's Happening
13. You Got It
14. Green Onions
15. Behave Yourself
16. Jellybread
17. All Right Ok You Win
18. Sticks and Stones
19. Misty
20. Hold It
21. Ebb Tide
22. Wimpburger
23. Straight from the Can
24. Cause I Love You
25. Squint Eye
26. Pop Eye Rider
27. It's Gonna Work out Fine
28. Sit Still
29. Too Pooped to Popeye
30. Sweet P Crawl
31. Muscles a Comin'
32. Sailor Man Waltz
33. Rinky Dink
34. I Got a Woman
35. Mo' Onions
36. Twist and Shout
37. Stranger on the Shore
38. Lonely Avenue
39. One Who Really Loves You
40. I Can't Sit Down
41. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
42. Comin' Home Baby

Booker T and the MGs. Booker T Jones, born on Dec. 11, 1944, in Memphis, multi-instrumentalist, primarily key-board, and the Memphis Group — Steve Cropper (born Oct. 21, 1941) guitar, originally Louis Steinberg on bass, later re-placed by Donald 'Duck' Dunn (born Nov. 24, 1941), Al Jackson (born Nov. 17, 1945) drums — were for ten years the nucleus of the houseband for Stax records — the corner-stone of the company, its sound, and its success.

Originally the rhythm section of the Mar-Keys, the four men were recorded at an impromptu session minus horns, resulting in 'Green Onions', a bluesy organ riff slashed through by Cropper's razor-sharp tones, riding on a simple but persuasive bass and drum line. Issued on the new sub-sidiary Volt, it was transferred to the parent Stax label and distributed by Atlantic to a million sales in August, 1962. Much tighter than the average small R&B combo, their eco-nomic and expressive interplay of ideas was effective on moody, small-hours blues or hard-driving dance tunes, dis-played in over a dozen albums and twenty more singles, in-cluding 'Bootleg' (1965), 'Hip Hug-Her', `Groovin (1967), `Soul Limbo' (1968), and 'Time Is Tight' (1969) from their soundtrack to the film 'Uptight'. Even more impressive was their contribution to virtually every hit created in the Stax studios in the Sixties.

They backed not only the company's own stars, but also provided other Atlantic artists with the most consistently successful answer to the Motown Sound. In 1971, tired of the pressures in a company which had long outgrown its intimate beginnings, Booker T escaped to a new career with his wife, Priscilla Coolidge, on the West Coast; Dunn stayed on in Memphis; Cropper has become a roving writer /producer and sessionman. Jackson remained a leading session drummer until his death in 1975.

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