Time Is Tight
Booker T. & The MGs
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
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1. Green Onions
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2. Behave Yourself
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3. Jellybread
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4. Home Grown
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5. Burnt Biscuits
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6. Chinese Checkers
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7. Mo' Onions
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8. Tic-Tac-Toe
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9. Fannie Mae
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10. Soul Dressing
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11. Can't Be Still
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12. Bootleg
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13. Outrage
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14. Be My Lady
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15. My Sweet Potato
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16. Hip Hug-Her
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17. Summertime
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18. Slim Jenkins' Place (aka Slim Jenkins' Joint)
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19. Groovin'
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20. Soul Sanction
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21. Pigmy
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22. Booker's Notion
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23. I Can Dig It
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24. Expressway (To Your Heart)
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25. You Don't Love Me
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26. Never My Love
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27. Blue On Green
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28. Ode To Billy Joe
DISC TWO
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1. Soul Limbo
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2. Heads Or Tails
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3. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
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4. Hang 'Em High
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5. Willow Weep For Me
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6. Over Easy
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7. Time Is Tight
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8. Johnny, I Love You
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9. Lady Madonna
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10. Mrs. Robinson
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11. Soul Clap '69
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12. I've Never Found A Man (a Girl)
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13. You're All I Need To Get By
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14. It's Your Thing
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15. Something
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16. Sunday Sermon
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17. McLemore Avenue
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18. Medley: Sun King / Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / I Wa
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19. Chicken Pox
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20. Melting Pot
DISC THREE
- 1. Gotta Serve Somebody
- 2. Lay Lady Lay
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3. MG Party
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4. Terrible Thing
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5. Hole In The Wall
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6. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
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7. Booker's Theme
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8. Albert's Rap
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9. Born Under A Bad Sign
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10. I'm With You/ I Don't Mind/ Oh, Baby, Don't You Weep
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11. Meditation
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12. Green Onions (Live)
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13. Sarasota Sunset (Live)
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14. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live)
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15. Hang 'em High (Live)
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16. Time Is Tight (Live)
- 17. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
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