Stax Records Stereo 1962 Cover has promo cut
You know the three original compositions are, in Dave Marsh's words, "what happens when the best backing group ever decides it's time to step up front and be noticed." (You probably also know how badly underrated is "Mo' Onions" - particularly Steve Cropper's ever-so-understated guitar break; the greatest soul rhythm guitarist of them all before Teenie Hodges came of age could flat play the blues without breaking a sweat or letting the string-bending joyboys intimidate him...the man's middle name was "Taste".) You also know that most of the rest is the kind of filler you used to hear (and cringe upon) at the local skating rink. But if you've got even half the sense of humor as the guys who cut it, this album isn't all that bad. In fact, they actually make "Lonely Avenue" (the classic Ray Charles cut from Pomus-Shuman) work. As album makers, Booker T. and the M.G.s in due course began living up to their classic singles and then some, and would someone PLEASE remind the nimrod from the critic's review at the head of the page that with the horns they were the MAR-KEYS, and not the BAR-KAYS (which was an entirely different band, both before and after they bought it with Otis Redding in that plane crash...)
Side 1.
1. Green Onions 2:45
2. Rinky-Dink 2:39
3. I Got A Woman 3:32
4. Mo' Onions 2:50
5. Twist And Shout 2:09
6. Behave Yourself 3:34
Side 2.
1. Stranger On The Shore 2:18
2. Lonely Avenue 3:25
3. One Who Really Loves You 2:22
4. I Can't Sit Down 2:46
5. A Woman, A Lover, A Friend 3:15
6. Comin' Home Baby 3:09
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