Time Is Tight

Booker T. & The MGs

3SCD-4424-2

CD $59.98 $44.98

RELEASE DATE: 15 Sep 1998

3SCD-4424-2

LABEL: STAX

GENRE: R&B, BLUES, SOUL & STAX

As the house rhythm section at Stax Records, Booker T. & the MGs all but single-handedly shaped the course of Southern soul music in the Sixties. Besides providing solid, consistently creative backing for the Memphis company's legion of great soul singers, the quartet created a body of instrumental recordings that, in the words of producer/annotator Rob Bowman, "always exuded a palpable sense of majesty, grace, and dignity." Contained herein are all of the band's major hits--from "Green Onions" in 1962 to "Melting Pot" in 1971–plus many classic album tracks, rare B-sides, and a cross-section of the reunited group's work in the Nineties--every selection a masterpiece of timbral nuance and tight timekeeping.

Booker T. & the MGs are:

Booker T. Jones–organ, piano
Steve Cropper–guitar
Lewie Steinberg or
Donald "Duck" Dunn–bass *
Al Jackson, Jr.–drums (through 1971)

* After November 1964 Lewie is replaced by Duck on bass (Lewie is the bassist on Disc 1, #1-11 and 13, and Disc 3, #3 and 4).


TRACKLISTING

DISC ONE

  • 1. Green Onions
  • 2. Behave Yourself
  • 3. Jellybread
  • 4. Home Grown
  • 5. Burnt Biscuits
  • 6. Chinese Checkers
  • 7. Mo' Onions
  • 8. Tic-Tac-Toe
  • 9. Fannie Mae
  • 10. Soul Dressing
  • 11. Can't Be Still
  • 12. Bootleg
  • 13. Outrage
  • 14. Be My Lady
  • 15. My Sweet Potato
  • 16. Hip Hug-Her
  • 17. Summertime
  • 18. Slim Jenkins' Place (aka Slim Jenkins' Joint)
  • 19. Groovin'
  • 20. Soul Sanction
  • 21. Pigmy
  • 22. Booker's Notion
  • 23. I Can Dig It
  • 24. Expressway (To Your Heart)
  • 25. You Don't Love Me
  • 26. Never My Love
  • 27. Blue On Green
  • 28. Ode To Billy Joe

DISC TWO

  • 1. Soul Limbo
  • 2. Heads Or Tails
  • 3. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
  • 4. Hang 'Em High
  • 5. Willow Weep For Me
  • 6. Over Easy
  • 7. Time Is Tight
  • 8. Johnny, I Love You
  • 9. Lady Madonna
  • 10. Mrs. Robinson
  • 11. Soul Clap '69
  • 12. I've Never Found A Man (a Girl)
  • 13. You're All I Need To Get By
  • 14. It's Your Thing
  • 15. Something
  • 16. Sunday Sermon
  • 17. McLemore Avenue
  • 18. Medley: Sun King / Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / I Wa
  • 19. Chicken Pox
  • 20. Melting Pot

DISC THREE

  • 1. Gotta Serve Somebody
  • 2. Lay Lady Lay
  • 3. MG Party
  • 4. Terrible Thing
  • 5. Hole In The Wall
  • 6. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
  • 7. Booker's Theme
  • 8. Albert's Rap
  • 9. Born Under A Bad Sign
  • 10. I'm With You/ I Don't Mind/ Oh, Baby, Don't You Weep
  • 11. Meditation
  • 12. Green Onions (Live)
  • 13. Sarasota Sunset (Live)
  • 14. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live)
  • 15. Hang 'em High (Live)
  • 16. Time Is Tight (Live)
  • 17. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

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