Booker T & The MG’s ”Soul Dressing”

Booker T & The MG’s

”Soul Dressing”
( LP Stax Records, 1965 )
Catalog # 705
*Also reissued on Atlantic Records with
Catalog # 7567-82337-2 (1995)

Tracklisting:
1 Soul Dressing (2:24)
2 Tic-Tac-Toe (2:30)
3 Big Train (2:30)
4 Jellybread (2:27)
5 Aw’ Mercy (2:34)
6 Outrage (2:31)
7 Night Owl Walker (3:12)
8 Chinese Checkers (2:25)
9 Home Grown (2:39)
10 Mercy Mercy (2:32)
11 Plum Nellie (2:03)
12 Can´t Be Still

Credits:
Bass – Lewis Steinberg (tracks: 6, 7, 10)
Drums – Al Jackson Jr. (tracks: 8, 11)
Guitar – Steve Cropper
Keyboards – Booker T. Jones
Reissue Producer – Yves Beauvais
Saxophone [Baritone] – Floyd Newman
Saxophone [Tenor] – Charles Axton
Trumpet – Wayne Jackson

Notes:
Tracks 6, 7, & 10: Bass either Lewis Steinberg or Donald “Duck” Dunn.
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Country: US
Released: Mar 1965
1st U.S. Pressing
Cover from the Reissue copy.

Review:
Assembled mostly from (non-hit) 1963-65 singles, this is solid stuff, but a notch below their peak collections. The best tracks (”Soul Dressing,” “Tic-Tac-Toe,” “Can’t Be Still”) are usually included on their best-of anthologies, but “Plum Nellie,” featuring some ferocious, cutting-edge solos by Cropper and Jones, is an overlooked highlight.
By Richie Unterberger (AMG)

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