Tag Archives: Booker T & The MGs

NOT PANTS

January 22, 2017 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, Particular platters · 30 Comments

Here is the groove test. Spin “Green Onions” by Booker T. & The M.G’s and if your booty doesn’t shake, your hips don’t swivel, your head doesn’t nod or your fingers snap, man, you dead to the rhythm. “Green Onions” was the lead track and hit single from the 1962 album of the same name, […]

ORGANS OF HEARING

February 26, 2016 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], d) Nineties [1990 - 1999], Particular platters, Progressive · 18 Comments

Decade Diving  (Round 3) 1966 A left-hand piano figure rocks up and down before a bluesy right hand enters, along with drums and bass. It’s cool, it’s groovy, it’s ‘My sweet potato’, the opening cut on And Now!, Booker T & The MG’s third album. But hang on a minute, shouldn’t we be hearing organ? […]