What Are You Listening To?

And Your Reply Was...............

Country Boy Can Survive - Bochephus

Hey Xman! Just thinkin about you as I had on:

Booker T and the MG's  -  McLemore Avenue.

Booker T and the MG's cover the Beatles Abbey Road. More about this funk fest salute later.

np: Carry That Weight, The End, Here Comes The Sun, Come Together medley

pin - also I think parental influence is much more important in learning driving skills, especially avoiding disaster.  My one cent worth.

Change the Word - Eric Clapton

Going through Clapton Chronicles

Secrets - Herbie Hancock

i'll be rockin this after work

Hey X,

Fire Lale  -  Bob Seger  -

Sky - Booker T and the MGs are one of my favorite groups ever - would love to hear their doing Abbey Road!  Beam it to me!!  Fun and funky........

It's in The Way That You Use It - Eric Clapton

this guy may seem like a moldy oldie to many of you, but to me his talents and voice, trials and tribulations make him something of a hero to me.  He's been selfless in his commemorations to fallen artists, and been strong enough to write about his own tragedies.  His is great on Layla, and outstanding in While My Guitar Gently Weeps - in tribute to G. Harrison.

From AMG ( I didn't know about the AMG site until recently. I thought all of you wre writing the reviews!)

Booker T. & the MG's

As the house band at Stax Records in Memphis, Booker T. & the MG's may have been the single greatest factor in the lasting value of that label's soul music — not to mention Southern soul as a whole. Their tight, impeccable grooves can be heard on classic hits by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Albert King, and Sam & Dave, just to name the very most prominent examples. For that reason alone, they would deserve their spot in rock & roll's hall of fame. But in addition to their formidable skills as a house band, on their own they were one of the top instrumental outfits of the rock era, cutting classics like "Green Onions," "Time Is Tight," and "Hang 'em High."

As a band that featured two blacks and two whites playing as tightly together as possible, they also set a somewhat under-appreciated example of both how integrated, self-contained bands could succeed, and how both black and white musicians could play funky soul music. As is the case with most instrumental rock bands, their singles contained their best material, and they're best appreciated via anthologies. But their albums were not inconsequential, and occasionally ambitious (they did an entire instrumental version of the Beatles' Abbey Road, which they titled McLemore Avenue in honor of the location of Stax's studios).

NP: Booker T. & the MG's - McLemore Avenue